Why Americans don't use WhatsApp (and why that's a Problem)
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- čas přidán 5. 01. 2024
- Around 58 million people in my home country Germany use the messenger WhatsApp. The app has replaced what once used to be the SMS text message: almost everyone who owns a smartphone can also be reached via the WhatsApp messenger. But in the USA things are different: Meta's app never really caught on here - even though it was an American invention. And this development also brings some problems with it.
A film by Matthias Schwarzer.
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Sources for the video:
Official WhatsApp user numbers Germany (2019, German):
blog.wiwo.de/look-at-it/2019/...
Current SMS usage figures in Germany (Federal Network Agency, German):
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/Shar...
Overview of SMS usage figures in Germany:
de.statista.com/statistik/dat...
Current SMS usage numbers in the US:
api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploa...
Overview of SMS usage figures in the USA:
www.statista.com/statistics/1....
"Americans can't quit SMS" ("New York Times"):
www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/te....
The "Wall Street Journal" on the blue bubble problem:
www.wsj.com/articles/why-appl...
"The New York Times". on the blue bubble problem:
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/te...
ABC about the blue bubble problem:
abcnews.go.com/Technology/ime...
Why Americans Don't Use WhatsApp ("New York Times"):
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/te...
CZcamsr Marques Brownlee on the blue bubble problem:
• Blue Bubbles vs Green ...
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I didn't know any of this. Thank you, Matthias. I'm American and ive always had an Android phone. I didn't want to be an Apple conformist. I've never had anyone mention my green bubbles. Maybe that's because I'm over 60.
Love your videos and coming from someone who lives in the US it's crazy how so many people judge green bubbles and can't just use other messaging apps like other countries can
You must be an Android user
@@GenAfterNextTactics I like both operating systems
@@GenAfterNextTactics And what does that have to do with their point?
The key thing that you’re overlooking is that other doubted joined out of necessity. If you’re paying for messaging and Americans damn near get it free, why would we be incentivized to use a third party messenger?
Why would an (American) iPhone use a third party app when they get the best experience with iMessage?
You can’t understand it because you were forced to use third party apps. Because there is no other reason to use third party apps, many Americans don’t have a reason to seek them out.
Now Apple is allowing rcs, there’s less reason to use other apps.
@@GenAfterNextTactics LOL, is that supposed to be an insult? 😂 It seems like a comment meant to be an extreme illustration of that odd phenomenon discussed in the video.
As an European I see it this way :
1) Americans don't travel so much abroad, so they do not need to spend a lot on international phonecalls.
2) Market behaviour: They tend to use the default app for anything they do. Like : the default browser, the default mapping service, and so on.
3) Unlimited text messages even for the cheapest plans. They basically send short messages.
4) iPhone marketshare. In the USA, iPhone is over 60% meanwhile in Europe is 25%. That means that features like iMessage and Facetime, sending large files, reactions, read receipts are allready built in to the phone. And since 6 of 10 smartphones in USA are iPhones, it is easy to reach someone.
In other words if an American goes to Europe, and meets someone over there and wants to resch him/her remember that only 3 out of 10 phones are iPhones. So they will be forced to switch : no free texting, no Facetime, no imessage, no read receipts, no way to send files by the default apps on the iPhone.
thanks for the video, mate! it's very entertaining to watch this unecxpectable theme about the US as a guy, who lives in Ukraine , where the procent of iphone users is even much lesser than in Germany, we here mostly use not whatsapp, but telegram and viber. And yep, I agree with the fact of whatsapp popularity in Europe, cause almost all my friends from western and central europe send messages to me with whatsapp.
America is the birthplace of so much technology and innovation and at the same time, so backwards at adopting those same advances. It's embarrassing.
As an America who travels to Europe at least once a year for work and talk with people in Europe and South America almost daily. Along with my wife who talks with her Swiss family via Whatsapp.
We use Whatsapp all the time. However, my friends in the USA don't like it for some reason. Its annoying.... they only iMessage and its dumb.
first time watching one of your videos, this one was really good and entertaining, nice video editing too, keep on going! your are doing good
Keep the good work up my friend
The americans in the states that use what's app are probably the ones that travel internationally or have family that's oversees many americans who dnt travel internationally or dnt have family outside the united states dnt really have a need to use it. I also primarily use andriod many andriod phones in america have a app called messages already preinstalled on their phone thats what many of us use by default because its already preinstalled on our phones
I have family in the US. They all have i-phones and use WhatsApp. It was from them that I first heard that most Americans don't. They couldn't explain why however.
I live in USA and I’ve been using WhatsApp for 12 years because all my phones have been Android, and over all, it’s a good a messaging app. I recently switched to an iPhone, but will continue to use WhatsApp.
Whatsapp was garbage because it only allowed install on a single device. Thus if my phone was charging and I was using my PC or tablet I was out of touch. I believe you can now log into Whatsapp on multiple devices but the damage is done and I hate the app. On my one device that has Whatsapp it keeps logging me out or flagging my account as spam. Overall a garbage experience.
das klingt sau interessant :D
Sehr schönes Video!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I had no Idea. I thought Whatsapp was a worldwide favourite. The fact that is US created, im Shocked.
You deserve more subs also, your videos are quality.
I'm going to be that guy. I'm an American and one of the 68.1 - 85.8 million. Even if I hate meta as a company, I can recognize a superior product and take advantage of what it has to offer. Besides, I was dragged kicking and screaming into using it by another American friend who uses it exclusively for chat. But yes, I DID learn something!
if you're being judge by green text, just say
"you may laugh because I'm different, but I laugh because you are all the same"
Lol.shut up android zombie
I find it more interesting that WhatsApp has become the preferred method of messaging outside the US. It’s had loads of privacy issues in the past and is owned by Meta which hasn’t had a great track record. I don’t really see any unique features WhatsApp has over other messaging platforms. So it surprises me that it’s still so popular and other messaging apps haven’t managed to compete with it.
Solution = RCS
Case closed 🔐
Generally replaced likes of Skype aswell seeing you can do phone calls and video calls and multi person calls
Skype. still functions fine in ever country .Many have no wish to go out in company I find Skype ideal from pc to land lines ..
@@HelenaMikas but I’m sure you don’t carry your pc around as a mobile phone
I'd argue skype was rather killed by other, better voicechat programmes that came around, like Discord for example.
Meta also developed Facebook messenger and I have to tell you it is used a lot by Americans especially if they are communicating with people overseas.
For me Skype is enough. .It can be used pc to , pc , smart phone to smartphone and to land lines .Reliable too .
whatsapp can be used in pc too
I’m from Puerto Rico and I have an IPhone and I use WhatsApp for most of my texting I only really sms my girlfriend & American friends I could care less about green bubbles lol I honestly even prefer WhatsApp because I’m so used to it
but why? Cant people simply send SMS directly? Why do they bother with an app? Here in Poland there is no such prererence, the market is quite fractured and divided, some people use discord, some use facebook and some other apps but no one needs any SMS replacements. SMS and calling being pretty much free might be a factor though, for the past decade the network providers only charge you for data, no one bothers limiting calls and sms.
Can't send images, voice notes or whatever. Just text. It's also quite clunky to use.
@@HaggardPillockHD you know everyone hates these 3 persons who for some unknown reason keep sending voice messages to people hahah The most annoying thin ever, just use voice to text :)
The normal SMS app on most phones is only that, an SMS app. No stickers or any other messenger features, only text and MMS. People use Whatsapp because it has more features than regular SMS
Why WhatsApp? Send images, videos, voice notes, documents, live locations, stickers, participate in group chats, communities, video calls. Above all, messages are encrypted end to end.
Asking "why WhatsApp" is like people who use horse drawn carriages asking why people use cars.
@@wandatrades4809u literally have all that in iMessage
You might think that free SMS messages is just so unnecesary, but see It this way: When you live on a country with bad salaries, having to pay extra for calling someone or sending them a message is not affordable. To this add the fact that iPhones are not so popular outside the US, AND that's why WhatsApp is so popular.
still dont understand why people buy iphones, they work good thats a fact, but the price card is way to high, they are missing apps because apple does not allow those apps due to revenue, and if you get locked out of icloud and dont have a receipt of your purchase you have an expensive brick.
in the netherlands i know people use iphones as well but most company's uses android as it has more freedom, and you can actually become admin (root) of your phone, while apple jailbreak is not giving you root as android does, you can still be locked out of your phone if apple decides to do so.
but to each there own, use what you like and just install something like whatsapp (dont recommend due to privacy) or Telegram (what i do recommend due to privacy).
Cthulhu will settle this, all will be red bubble soon!
Im in the USA and the only reason I have Whatsapp is because of my family in Germany. They refuse to use other apps 🤣. My American friends and family NEVER use Whatsapp. 😂. So if I had no family in Germany I would not need Whatsapp . 😂 I would delete it, because its a big app and takes a lot of space in my phone. My american family and me mostly use facebook messanger and nobody owns an i phone 😂. So I realy dont see a problem anywhere 😂
The app actually doesn't take up much space, at least when your phone isn't 15 years old and lacking storage space.
@leDespicable Yeah , I used to have those phones, cause my family lives in Germany for 30 years 🤣, or , lets say , I live in the USA for 30 years. So , since Whatsapp exists I have to have a phone with more memory 🤣, cause I need all the other apps for America to. I dont know how old you are , but Im up there and had a lot cellphones. I even had a life without any internet at all 😂. And a phonecall from America to Germany was at least $ 50 , if you realy wanted to have a little bit of a conversation. So , guess what, we actualy wrote letters to each other 😂
Exactly me like many other Americans who dnt travel overseas or have family overseas are probably unaware of this but luckily on youtube I came across information on this a year ago before this I didn't know what what's app was
I'll keep my opinion for myself and not insult these American habits. I guess I failed.
Yes, By all means send your messages directly to the NSA, CIA, FBI spooks.
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iPhone comes with a messaging app so no one in the USA needs what’s app
I have an iphone but i barely use imessage because my contacts are mixed android and iphones -
Your a beautiful man
It's a class thing.
was this word salad of a video script written by AI ?
Most Americans do not trust meta for very good reasons. Europeans on the other hand do not mind being spied on or controlled. Also, most of the people that do use WhatsApp here in America are people that were born in other countries and moved here to America.
And no, it's not a problem that we don't use WhatsApp. It's not a secure text messaging or calling service. Meta still collects data from users. We Americans don't like that kind of stuff whereas Europeans for some strange odd reason love being under the control of their government. It's where all the world wars have been fought because of them allowing governments to be in control.
How is using WhatsApp "loving to be under the control of your government", when WhatsApp isN't owned by their government?
I have no idea about how American mentality and experience regarding this, but all the sources I find list Google Messenger and Instagram Direct as the most popular messaging apps in the US. They're both owned by Meta.
after over 10 minutes of partially meaningless, partially inaccurate word salad, i am giving up
i no longer gaf why he thinks anything here is a problem because half of his buildup is blatantly false.
what an s wype
Who shat in your cereal?
sorry about your stroke. get well soon. @@leDespicable
Tell me, where was he blatantly saying false things then?
@@leDespicable whatsapp is not an InVeNtIoN. its another iteration of about a dozen other preexisting practically identical services.
icq, aim, trillian, gvoice, ig, signal, telegram, skype, etc and so on.
except most of them are better because they dont force feed the user with meta integration.
it does not replace SMS. its a completely separate technology that exists in parallel and serves different purposes.
whatsapp "didnt catch on" because it is irrelevant.
same as blue vs green bubble discrimination that he is trying to drum up.
he is making an elephant out of a fly.
the data prices he is quoting here are utter nonsense.
we've had affordable unlimited sms/data plans for almost 2 decades.
for about a decade we've had entirely free plans for those that qualify.
"the company [apple] wants to introduce the RCS standard." its not /their/ standard for them to be introducing it.
it was an industry initiative by various technology promoters that has been based in GSMA since 2008.
Google was one of the (if not the) first to actually adopt it into their own apps and actively promote it even going against their own proprietary technologies.
apple has been actively resisting this standard for years.
apples doesn't "want to introduce" it as he falsely claims. they are being basically forced to do so.
he is trying real hard to mush together separate subject matters in a convoluted matter to draw his hyperbolic conclusions.
its like someone gave him a homework assignment of "write a creative essay on a random topic and it has to be 2000 words" or reach the 19 minute mark or whatever.
this entire video comes off as a bloated shill piece of whatsapp and apple.
this guy has very little clue about the various topics that he is talking about.
but what else could we expect from an incompetent nincompoop that apparently can't even manage to find a "motel" room that he is comfortable in?
this is like D tier of CZcamsr content that unfortunately helps to propagate falsehoods and misconceptions to its audience all for some ad revenue.