The Reality Of The Global Messaging App Market: It’s Really Freaking Fragmented It would be easy to assume that Facebook Messenger or Apple’s iMessage are in a natural position to reach global dominance in smartphone messaging. But the reality is that the landscape looks very different and is very fragmented — at least for now. There are plenty of apps, WhatsApp included, that have tens of million
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