Poll results: Which chat app do you use most?

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Posts: 307; Member since: May 28, 2014

What makes WhatsApp so special? Genuine curiosity

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 9:24 AM 3

Posts: 5868; Member since: May 06, 2016

Ha! WhatsApp bagged 50% of votes in this poll. Geniune curiousity, bruh!

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 9:31 AM 0

Posts: 307; Member since: May 28, 2014

You're a clever one, eh? I was asking Because it was voted so high. Thanks to Oracle

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 11:39 AM 1

Posts: 1239; Member since: Aug 05, 2014

Because whatsapp is the lightest, simplest, spam free and 100% ads free messenger out there...

posted on Nov 10, 2016, 1:12 PM 0

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

Voice and video chatting, file, video and photo sharing. Very light, doesn't hog battery or resources, cross platform and simple to use. Plus everyone uses it including iPhone owners.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 9:35 AM 7

Posts: 400; Member since: Jun 12, 2015

Add end-to-end encryption to that list.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 2:02 PM 2

Posts: 1253; Member since: Sep 08, 2012

There's no video chatting

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 9:30 PM 0

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

Update your WhatsApp. Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere it came out about two weeks ago.

posted on Nov 10, 2016, 11:56 AM 0

Posts: 1239; Member since: Aug 05, 2014

He doesn't live in caves. Video Call option in whatsapp is only available for beta testers..... As of Now.

posted on Nov 10, 2016, 1:14 PM 1

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

The APK is freely available and was in an article right here on iPhonearena.

posted on Nov 11, 2016, 12:40 AM 0

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

So iMessage isn't the most popular chat app? I'm shocked. NOT!

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 9:32 AM 1

Posts: 2697; Member since: Nov 09, 2015

No, not a shocker considering most (if not all) people here use Androids and are Fandroids... iMessage is; without a doubt; the SECOND most popular Instant Messaging 'app'... The only difference is that the people who use it are average users, and not geeks...! Conduct this poll on social media such as Twitter etc, and I'm sure the 'turn-out' would be FAR greater than this... G'Day!

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 9:37 AM 2

6. naveenstuns

Posts: 184; Member since: Feb 19, 2012

I don't know abt other countries but if this poll is conducted only in india then results would have been whatsapp 90%+

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 10:01 AM 5

7. Doakie

Posts: 2478; Member since: May 06, 2009

I'm pretty sure globally Facebook Messager would still beat iMessage. 90% of the world uses Android and all.... Nice assumption though.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 10:10 AM 10

14. TheOracle1

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

At least you concede that whatsapp is by far the most popular. But FB messenger is definitely number 2 by a long distance from iMessage or any other app. I'm amazed that people use an intrusive, resource hogging, battery killer like FB messenger. At least most of my friends do. Geeks or not iMessage and most Apple apps just aren't that popular and even if they were free and cross platform it's too late.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 4:00 PM 5

19. joey_sfb

Posts: 6794; Member since: Mar 29, 2012

How would you make iMessaging the second most popular chat software when its mathematically improbable?

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 10:09 PM 1

21. TechieXP1969

Posts: 14967; Member since: Sep 25, 2013

So I guess all 1.4B Andrpidnjsers must come here? The reason iMessage isn't on top, is because it isn't cross-platform. And even if Apple brings it to Android, it won't have the same features. Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp, are I identical on all platforms. They have more features and are just better. IMessage is good, so is BBM. But they are only good on their own platforms. I do mind proprietary things, but I prefer having options. Especially since i Use Windows, Android, iOS and OSX daily. IMessage only works on 2 of those. That automatically makes it useless garbage.

posted on Nov 10, 2016, 7:09 AM 2

20. AlikMalix unregistered

There are very few iOS users on PA. Most are android - so not one android user can it's for iMessage and even though iOS users ALL have iMessage some use other messeging apps more frequently because their friends that don't have iPhones use something else.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 11:48 PM 0

22. TechieXP1969

Posts: 14967; Member since: Sep 25, 2013

Or maybe because iMessage sucks vs other options. Even if iMessage comes to Andrpid, most people aren t going to stop using what works better or what they're use to using. You Apple fans always try to make it seem it's our problems that Apple doesn't support cross-platform because it's a waybto keep you sucks under their thump. When younhave lots of friends. You have to use what's best to keep in touch. The vast majority of the world uses Windows and Android. Get over it, it's probably never going to change. Fact - if Apple had never brought iTunes to Windows, the iPhone would never have been a topic for conversation. Because the vast majority of people would certain not buy a Mac just to own an iPhone. You all claim that their aren t many Apple users on PA is BS. They just don't argue or troll like you all do. They read and move on. I frequents several tech sites where I have an account and never post. Because reading is more fun and helps you gain knowledge. PA is a site for people like you, who are allowed to speak ill or stretch the truth to fit your agenda and theirs. Item is Android uses who keep sites like PA online. Because the day we stop coming is the day PA dies.

posted on Nov 10, 2016, 7:16 AM 0

24. TheOracle1

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

Ok. Let's concede that iMessage is the best chat app of all time for a moment. 90% of smartphone users are on Android and I'm pretty sure the majority of them didn't vote in this poll. If 90% of users are on Android then my simple fandroid brain will concede the remaining 10% to iPhone users. I think it's pretty clear that the remaining 10% are more likely to use the chat app that everyone else is using rather than the other way round. Whatsapp and Facebook have over 1 billion users each and that includes iPhone users. So how on God's green earth can an exclusive iPhone app even come close to competing with those numbers? Just take their popularity as fact and stop spewing garbage.

posted on Nov 10, 2016, 12:08 PM 0

25. AlikMalix unregistered

How is what you said different from what I said?

posted on Nov 10, 2016, 12:39 PM 0

29. TheOracle1

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

You were implying that if more IOS users were on here they would have made a difference. That's false and you're grasping for some kind of spin in favor of iMessage.

posted on Nov 11, 2016, 12:44 AM 0

9. avalon2105

Posts: 352; Member since: Jul 12, 2014

I can't believe that I live in a country where Viber has 10 times more users than Whatsapp (conservative guess). Why is anyone using that bloated mess is beyond me. That being said, I may have to look for WA alternatives if FB keeps messing with it's policies.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 11:26 AM 0

11. SuperAndroid507

Posts: 361; Member since: Jan 06, 2014

Many iphone users in my country doesn't even know what does iMessage actually do. They just install Whatsapp ASAP on new devices. Majority of them believe iMessage is just the default (and only for) SMS app.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 12:09 PM 0

13. EC112987

Posts: 1214; Member since: Nov 10, 2014

I use WhatsApp more than any other app on my phone but google allo is pretty cool.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 2:02 PM 0

15. TheOracle1

Posts: 2151; Member since: May 04, 2015

I'm a heavy whatsapp user and I like it. But the most feature rich and second most heavily used messenger app on my phone is Hangouts. Free Google Voice number that roams worldwide for free. File sharing, sms, voice and video conferencing. It's really a superb app that Google has bungled in marketing terms.

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 4:11 PM 0

16. steelew

Posts: 219; Member since: Jun 04, 2012

I would love to use Allo but they left out SMS so its worthless

posted on Nov 09, 2016, 5:24 PM 0

17. MaryPoopins

Posts: 324; Member since: Jan 15, 2015

I think WeChat (WeiXin) would have won had it been added to the list........ and had phonearena been a popular site in China. Everyone over here uses it, from toddlers to grandparents :D