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I think you're misrepresenting (or misunderstanding) the matter.

WhatsApp can be installed on any device. iMessage requires specific hardware, i.e. an Apple iPhone.

It is always possible not to use either and just communicate by SMS (which I prefer myself, but as I understand it WhatsApp came to be used here in Belgium because phone plans are expensive and SMS are still limited/paid on most plans) but that's a different matter.

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> I think you're misrepresenting (or misunderstanding) the matter.

The matter here is that the commenter I was responding to says I don't exist. My experience is that folks with that attitude also treat me as if I don't exist. I object to both of these things.

Selling your first-born rights for a lentil soup, or agreeing to adversarial T&C of a foreign corporation should not be a precondition for participating in a society.

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