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hike is dead, everyone uses whatsapp, the kids use snapchat, and people use telegram for large groups / interests.

I primarily use iMessage (most friends and all of my family uses it), but I'm also on WhatsApp so I am available to people having to use Android etc. I also joined Telegram but it doesn't appear to have a lot of adoption where I am. In addition I occasionally get messages on FB Messenger but it also seems to be losing traction.

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1810/

I'm not sure what your message is supposed to be saying / bringing to the table.

Also, what a very localised generalisation. The article is about how the dominant app in China is faring in India. Other countries have different usages.

Eg near both india and china Line and fb messenger are dominating Thailand while Whatsapp has trouble there (lots of people have it, nobody uses it), snapchat is still hisptery/rare, wechat is limited to chinese expats and nobody has even heard of telegram.

Just my personal observations. I thought we were talking about use of chat apps in India so of course it makes sense for me to talk local. Another personal observation; the tibetan community in india uses wechat, snapchat is very popular among the youth, so is instagram. FB is for old people. The important thing to take away from the article was that "India is divided into three consumer segments: the first 100 million, mainly the urban or affluent Indians and are the main targets of indulgent e-commerce brands; the second 100 million classified as the aspiring class; and the last a little over a billion — three segments he calls the splurgers, strivers and survivors." and wechat appealed to none

Personal anecdotes have value in situations where data is sparse. Often one has to extrapolate from a small number of use cases when developing a new product. I found his comment valuable.

> people use telegram for large groups / interests. and bots, i have a couple of whatsapp based groups that have a telegram channel/bot.

Do you have data to back this up?

No population data but every single person I know in the 40-65 age range spends hours on whatsapp, annoying everyone younger with their forwards and bullshit morning wishes. Everyone keeps asking me to join telegram so that they can add me to these groups too large for whatsapp. And I'm too old to know anything about what the kids use these days.

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