I read about WhatsApp and how people can't part with Meta because of it, however no one on my continent uses it. Why is it so popular in the EU and other parts of the world?
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IMO: iPhones are the minority in the world apart from North America.
Whatsapp became the main "secure" chat service on Android, but iOS always had its own iMessage feature so WhatsApp isnt needed if you're somewhere with basically zero android phones.
While I agree iPhone market share in the US plays a role too, WhatsApp came out in 2009 - two years before iMessage was launched.
Native apps like iMessage tend to crush third party apps like WhatsApp and messenger to a point.
Look at the rise of Internet Explorer and the fall of Netscape on windows. The rise of chrome and safari on Android and Mac respectively
The US of still slight more Android than iPhone as well