I’m not sure what this is supposed to prove? There are lots of different messaging apps with very high market share in the US versus a WhatsApp monoculture. A lot of people using SMS are actually using iMessage, and historically one of the reasons it’s won is because US telecoms went to unlimited SMS messaging when competing with each other, whereas foreign monopoly telecoms charged prices per SMS making messaging apps on data more competitive.
iMessage is a better experience and also degrades gracefully to sms for people who aren’t on the platform, unlike almost all other messaging apps where I have to make sure they have the app installed.
Facebook messenger has like 50% market penetration with its own suite of features. Snapchat is next and offers a very different user experience.
Apps without compelling reasons to exist like Google allo lose.
iMessage is a better experience and also degrades gracefully to sms for people who aren’t on the platform, unlike almost all other messaging apps where I have to make sure they have the app installed.
Facebook messenger has like 50% market penetration with its own suite of features. Snapchat is next and offers a very different user experience.
Apps without compelling reasons to exist like Google allo lose.