Why are Americans so far behind the times and still using SMS instead of pic related?

Why are Americans so far behind the times and still using SMS instead of pic related?

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Americans still use imperial units
Americans still buy locked phones
Americans still use magnetic-stripe cards
Americans still use DSL with data caps
Americans microwave water
Americans sit on their roofs wearing red plastic cups
Americans put eggs in the fridge doors and buy aerosol cheese
Americans have two parties and call that "a democracy"

Americans do a lot of weird stuff, using SMS is perhaps the least strange thing about this nation

What's wrong with SMS?

objectively inferior to a messaging app and SMS aren't even encrypted.

only 3rd worlders use whatsapp

There's a lot of factors (mostly corporate nonsense) that hold back a lot of technological advancement amongst the average Amerifat in Clapistan.

Mostly, it boils down to this:
>Wow! Look at this new thing!
>Does it cost money to adapt to new thing?
>Yes.
>Let's just keep the old thing.

>Americans sit on their roofs wearing red plastic cups
What is that?

You do Americans use automatic transmission instead of superior manual transmission?

>sms is old-fashioned

last i checked, sms is faster and doesn't require internet. also only indians use whatsapp

>manual
>superior
LOL

What's it like living in the past? Today's automatics shift faster than manuals ever could and they're more efficient.

Please kill yourself post hated you luddite faggot.

>only 3rd worlders use modern technology
>we use SMS technology from decades ago
hurr durr murrica pride

Why would I want to bother with manual transmission? I hate driving.

Can't send files. Length limit.

>faster
what?

also, sms doesn't have
>delivery confirmation
>read confirmation
>groups
>location and data transfer
>encryption

and who the fuck doesn't have internet anyway? are you seriously calling someone a third worlder when you're the one who doesn't have internet all the time? top lmao

>in america mobile internet is such a luxurious resource that they have to send SMS
do you communicate through smoke signals as well? top fucking kek

WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and iMessage are used by millions of people in this country. None of them are SMS.

Because in the land of frivolous lawsuits, you can't even trust Americans to wipe their own ass without injuring themselves, let alone manually shift their cars.

Every product must do the job as automatically as possible, with the least amount of consumer interaction. Any form of physical contact between the product and consumer must include a 20-page disclaimer that prevents numerous creative ways the consumer can snake through the lawbooks and sue the company for neglect.

No encryption.

They take pride in not having internet on their phones all the time and call third worlders those who do.

>Shifts slower
>Loses more power
>One more thing for the driver to do

I'm sorry what's the advantage again? Drive a car made in the last 5 years with an automatic transmission. Manual "peasant" technology is completely obsolete.

Source: drove manuals for over 10 years, bought a new car with paddles.

>Facebook botnet

automatics suck big time if you're driving in hilly terrain unless its got sport mode

Only 80%. but why the HELL does your car say Microsoft?!

This. Third worlders get fleeced for sending 10 characters across the mobile network. It's all unlimited in the greatest nation.

Bet you love getting spied on too

I would feel dirty if I had to use text messages tb.h.

What is PGP

America uses A5/1 SMS encryption and it's trivially easy to crack.

>Americans microwave water
>Americans sit on their roofs wearing red plastic cups
nigga wat

>Americans still use imperial units
I defend all but grams/liters.
We use M/D/Y bc we say "January 12th" (minus 4th of July).
Temperature of Fahrenheit is better due to increased variety. 0-100 is for water. I am a human not a water.

>frivolous lawsuits
meme perpetuated by corporations to make you afraid of suing.

How has nobody mentioned whatsapp is a botnet?

>Not sitting on your roof wearing red plastic cups.
Get a load of this guy. What do you use? Blue cups?

>Americans have two parties and call that "a democracy"
Still better than whatever commie system you use, eurocuck.

>botnet
there it is, that word that you keep using without knowing what it means
provide evidence of wpp being used as a botnet or shut up retard

Sorry, Facebook can't spy on me because I don't use Whatsapp.

In Europe we use whatsapp because a lot of providers make it so that using whatsapp doesn't even consume data (along with snapchat and ig). in portugal at least.
from what i've heard americans have to pay crazy amounts for mobile data so it's kind of understandable

I live in building, the "roof" can be reserved for barbecues and pool parties.

Isn't a 'plastic cup' a device you fill with a liquid that you can then drink?
Isn't 'wearing' the act of using clothes on your body?

How do you wear a plastic cup.

theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/25/whatsapp-to-give-users-phone-number-facebook-for-targeted-ads

hurr durr anyone who disagrees with me is a retard
also

>inb4 that's not what a botnet is
It's malicious.
It's doing things without your permission and connecting to a central server.

That facilitates monopolies and should be illegal.

zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6143
Even if its not a botnet, it's doing some pretty sketchy shit.

Everyone here uses iMessage or facebook messenger.

It's a joke about how many American films/tv shows have a scene where they sit on their roofs and talk about something. American films/tv shows also show frat parties where everyone drinks out of plastic red cups all the time.

Obviously it's not accurate. Americans would fall through their roof if they sat on it since their houses are made of cardboard. And if you drank in public, you'd get arrested.

>he expects me to stop sending my SMS messages and drinking my big gulp while driving to use a fruity gear stick

>I recently binge-watched Adam Ruins Everything

>Obviously it's not accurate. Americans would fall through their roof if they sat on it since their houses are made of cardboard.
kek

>And if you drank in public, you'd get arrested.
What a fucking shitland.

It is in America because of net neutrality but that's about to end

They are part of the same company, giving your phone number to one is pretty much like giving it to the entire corporation. And you are bending the definition of botnet to fit your arguments.

Yep that's odd, still a million times more secure than SMS. For sexting and stuff like that it's pretty much completely secure. If you really want to be 100% private you should probably use Signal anyway.

Pretty much every app doesn't delete data securely. It costs too much time and energy to remove data while destroying any way to forensically trace it. And it's not like SMS avoids the issue either, it's still far less secure.

you say no encryption like a bad thing and then use fucking whatsapp?

my god damn sides

>It is in America because of net neutrality but that's about to end
It's illegal in a lot of other countries too.

whatsapp is literally encrypted though

Yeah I guess but I don't really give a shit about other countries

WhatsApp was created in america you insufferable fagget

>google
>encryption

please tell me you are fucking joking

You are measuring water you shitlord.

yeah just like credit card chips and you didn't even implement the technology you came up with

god damn you're retarded

>open standard vs proprietary solution
What is XMPP, user? Oh, that thing that prevents walled gardens and was killed by Google, Facebook and WhatsApp
>OP is the cancer that is killing Sup Forums

We had this thread yesterday, ya viraling fuck.

You might be retarded user. I used a credit card with a chip today in the states

~65% of human weight is water, user.
Unless you're american, then 100% of your weight is fat.

>Americans use calculators instead of writing the equations on pieces of paper
>Americans use automatic headlights instead of manually turning them on and off
>Americans use electronic calculators synced across all their devices with notifications about events instead of having a physical calender in the kitchen with everything written on it

Fucking Americans, they're so backwards.

The difference is that the rest of the world can also drive an automatic as well as a manual. There are literal third-worlders who are smart enough to drive a manual car yet most Americans can't even manage that.

>sms is faster
It's significantly slower, actually. (Not just slower than Whatsapp, but all internet messengers.)
It usually takes a couple of seconds to be delivered. I wonder why, must be because of some old tech from the 90s...

That's the little "sync by Microsoft" plaque they fuck your dash with. It's an awful awful radio, infotainment software thing

If you're so concerned about your privacy you need all your messages encrypted then why the fuck would you use WhatsApp, developed by a company that cares as little about your privacy as possible?

Has whatsapp not been hacked repeatedly putting user info at risk?

nope

>Using anything owned by facebook

Why would you do that to yourself? When you aren't paying for something that isn't FOSS, then YOU are the product.

>cares about encryption
>uses an app that requires play services always running in background
wew

...

It doesn't require gapps

>Shifts slower
An automatic can "shift faster" but still be slower than a manual due to parasitic loss (Does not apply to DCT's). Just look at every Subaru ever made, the manuals are always accelerate faster, of course you have to be a competent driver to achieve this.

>Loses more power
There's inherent parasitic losses thanks to driving a high pressure fluid pump, extra weight, and the reality of how torque converters work (does not apply to DCT''s)

>One more thing for the driver to do
Sorry to hear you spent 10 years driving a stick and still suck at it, it's okay.

>Americans microwave water

It's effortless. No reason exists not to use a microwave for that job.

I don't require encryption because I'm not messaging classified data. I wouldn't send that over a phone by any method, or the internet. If the NSA want your shit you can't stop them. I want an NSA minder to prove my bona fides in case I ever need to renew my security clearance. I don't care if they watch me fap to goat porn.

Reasons do not exist for me to prefer manual transmissions (except on motorcycles) to auto. Driving is work. More work is pointless for no return. I've been driving manuals longer than most of you faggots have been on the planet, but only lately has a manual transmission become some sort of stupid tryhard hipster macho statement. Shifting is easy but it's still extra work. When I use my trucks it's much more convenient to have an automatic for towing, pulling other vehicles where I want them prior to trailering, preloading trees for controlled felling, or just driving in traffic.

If i go on whatsapp.com the only option is to "get it on google play". Also i remember from the times i used to use it that it required to dowload every new update from there

>There's inherent parasitic losses thanks to driving a high pressure fluid pump, extra weight, and the reality of how torque converters work (does not apply to DCT''s)

If your engine is tiny enough that those matter, consider a moped.

SMS is unlimited in America so we don't have to bother with silly peasant apps

>If i go on whatsapp.com the only option is to "get it on google play".
huh?
whatsapp.com/android/

Signal is the only messaging app you should use.

signal.org

>using IM apps
Well my SMS is free. I already have to trust my provider why trust another random company?

>quit Facebook
>quit snapchat
>quit instagram
>'oh user how do we talk to you?'
>'get whatsapp user'

Boy I sure want them to have all my personal data when it's owned by (((them)))

Use Aptoide instead. It's a trusted app supplier and from what I've heard it's FOSS. There are also other ways to download apps off Google without gapps.

You normally need an "app store" on your phone unless you want to download and update apps manually. If you're no longer using play store then Aptoide is one of better options. F-droid is also good as it has lots of useful open source apps.

>SMS is obsolete goy!
>use the botnet!
I'm only sending well encrypted messages through SMS or the internet using free, libre software.

>less features
>requires GApps
>still requires phone number

I think you meant to say Wire.

>because we say
You sure it wasn't the other way around user?
Because here we say 12th of January.

The other post said that manuals had higher power loss, which is plainly false. Parasitic loss is still parasitic loss, doesn't matter if its a 50cc 2 stroke or a battle ship engine.

>you spent 10 years driving a stick and still suck at it, it's okay
It's not ok, idiots like that should lose their license.
If you aren't disabled l, but can't use a manual transmission, you shouldn't be allowed to obtain a license to drive.

Oh, i didn't search enough. I assumed they were like other companies that rely only on google. That's a point for them

because some of us still call people and are not 22 year old females

Ehh, I'm not that hard core on it. There's plenty of people that drive stick but still otherwise are bad drivers. I'd rather see more enforcement on basic road manners. There's so many people that don't understand basic fucking things like right-of-way, merging properly, not hogging the left lane, etc, etc.

Go to bed dad

go trim your two facial hairs

>Temperature of Fahrenheit is better due to increased variety. 0-100 is for water. I am a human not a water.

>not putting eggs in the fridge

Americans are too dumb to use manual transmission.

europeans are too dumb to see why automatic is better

>americans have better vehicles

Yup, it has you fucking idiot.

If you're on a contract you might as well use up all the texts they give you and get your money's worth.

Me though i'm on PAYG, and i haven't needed to top up in months thanks to WhatsApp. If you live in a city you're never too far away from a place with free wifi. Even buses now have wifi, so i see no need to ever pay for calls/texts ever again.

why am i so far ahead and don't use that pic related
i dont even use a "smart" phone

Canada does most of this with more restrictions and higher cost. Feels fucking badman

HONEYPOT

>boasting about unlimited sms
>get cucked heavily with data caps from network providers and ISPs

My sides

My sides

I mostly use Hangouts with a bit of Wire on the side. Haven't been able to get everyone in the Hangouts group chats I'm in to migrate to Wire, unfortunately. I also use IRC, of course.