Exclusive: Android’s last chance to fix messages

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[TheVerge]

What texting / chat app do you use right now? Do you think this new Chat system will be an upgrade? -- Dieter

[CKTDanny]

Lol I loved that montage of the attempts at decent messaging on Android

[ehmzed]

Japan: LINE
South Korea: Kakao Talk
China: WeChat
Australia: SMS
USA:
Rest of the world: WhatsApp

[fvahamonde]

April 1st 2019... Still waiting 🤦🏻‍♂️
I'd still use What'sApp anyway

[kaustubh_kp]

That's why whatsapp is so popular.

[jjc]

wait, i hope i can finally uninstall whatsapp and kill the facebook universe..

[neilrischl]

You really need to make your own channel. The verge is lucky to have you.

[aliticx]

Srsly the Android messaging problem is just a US thing. Literally everyone in my country uses WhatsApp for chatting whether he’s got an iPhone or Android. I also don’t get how iMessage became the standard service for messaging, WhatsApp existed probably 2 years before iMessage was introduced.. how did you Americans communicate pre-iMessage? Just wondering.

[EvilBns]

Dude! I like this series...keep going! :)

[JohnSpike]

So wait - you're telling me that you guys get charged for received sms? For RECEIVED?

[ThatTechThough]

As an Android user. iMessage is superior. I loved Allo but it was badly executed.

[itaytabib]

IDK bout y'all but where I live literally everyone uses WhatsApp.. iPhone users too

[PatrickHocking]

Hope that your friend has Whatsapp. Seriously? Are you guys really using SMS? LMAO

[mogencheng]

Content quality is getting so much better

[LeBeautiful]

sry but I just wanna see the day we got a real iMessage competitor

[pasta]

Really hope Apple picks this up as well. Not for iMessage. But we could send iMessages between iOS devices, and RCS for others.

[ThatTechThough]

Oh and Dieter, loving these videos so far. Great!!

[toggtlas]

Dear Americans, just use Whatsapp - Sincerely, rest of the World

No but seriously, how is this even a problem? Why are we talking about texts in 2018? Everyone is either on Whatsapp or FB Messenger and everyone have a data plan. How is this a problem to anyone?

[notweirder]

Dieter, love that your answering peoples questions! Keep up the great series!

[zollotech]

This is what keeps me from switching...hopefully it’s great.