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IshKebab on Dec 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beeper Mini is back

Like today, it was highly regional. The talk about Beeper Mini sounds ridiculous in the UK because literally nobody uses iMessage.

IIRC AIM was popular in America and MSN was popular in Europe.

dontlaugh on Dec 12, 2023 | [–]

Plenty of people implicitly (and likely unknowingly) use iMessage in the UK, because iPhones are quite popular here.

But indeed no one uses it for group chats. That's what WhatsApp is for.

felideon on Dec 11, 2023 | [–]

Correct. Same with South America: everyone used MSN Messenger.

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