It has been an extended, exhausting, windy street however WhatsApp has lastly reached 100 million month-to-month lively customers within the US. That market is notoriously enamored with Apple’s iMessage so that is fairly the feat for WhatsApp – in contrast to ever different place on the planet the place WhatsApp is as dominant as iMessage is within the US, or extra.
This info is official and comes straight from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The fastest-growing markets for WhatsApp within the US are Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle. The corporate can be saying it is skilled “significant growth” within the South, with Texas having greater than 10 million customers.
That is the primary time WhatsApp has revealed knowledge like this, which makes us surprise why. We assume that is meant to reassure individuals within the US who’re nonetheless reluctant to put in WhatsApp that it is okay, see, lots of people are on right here already. Will this assist break Individuals’ iMessage habit? In all probability not. However WhatsApp is certainly going to attempt, and hold attempting.
It is also in all probability not a coincidence that this “transparency” marketing campaign comes a few months earlier than iOS 18 will get launched to the general public, since that model of Apple’s cellular OS will assist RCS, thus enabling prime quality picture and video sharing with Android telephones straight via the Messages app. Which may impression WhatsApp’s additional development within the US.
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