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Essentially everyone my age and down? I'm a late millennial.

If the number in your name is your birth year I'm not too surprised, but don't assume you can project from your own experience onto others 1:1.



How many millennials on down are “non technical” at least to the point that they can’t download an app?


You are a very ignorant if you think there is no barrier to getting someone to try an app with a substantially less good UX than what someone's currently using, and that that barrier doesn't border impossible in a group of 10.

I can't even get my wife to install Element - and she works in tech as a senior python / automation engineer. People want neatness on their phone and low total complexity, and installing a messenger for a single person is over the line for most.


You have insults I have numbers. We are not the same…

> You are a very ignorant if you think there is no barrier to getting someone to try an app with a substantially less good UX than what someone's currently using, and that that barrier doesn't border impossible in a group of 10.

Yet many people do have multiple messaging apps.

And Discord the one you think is so popular is not even in the top 10…

https://www.statista.com/statistics/258749/most-popular-glob...

They aren’t counting iMessage as a separate app. But do you really think it wouldn’t rank above Discord?

> I can't even get my wife to install Element - and she works in tech as a senior python / automation engineer.

Maybe your enlightened millennial friends and family aren’t as willing to change as you think they are?

> People want neatness on their phone and low total complexity,

Yet the average person has 35 apps on their phone

https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-strategies/app-and...




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