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Cakebaker posted:Interesting! Funny how it differs so much between regions. The reason why WhatsApp is so popular in the Netherlands is quite funny as well. A couple of years ago (before free/unlimited texts was common) telcos saw their revenue from text messages beginning to drop because of services like WhatsApp and came up with the brilliant idea of charging money for WhatsApp messages (through inspection of tcp packets). This caused a big fuss in the media which gave WhatsApp a ton of free press and almost instant marketshare really early. It remains big now now mostly because of market inertia. (The media fuss over this idea als had the added effect of waking politicians up and getting them to put net neutrality into law, so the telcos actually hosed themselves over double with it.)
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