Whats app Vs We Chat vs. Line: Which has more users? And Why?
Whats app, we chat, Line – these are the name that has become a very common jargon and integral part of today’s smart phone users, along with two other name viz. We chat and Line. These names describe the cross-platform instant messaging subscription service for Smartphone that uses the internet for communication.
Whatsapp and its rival administrations like Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, BBM, Line, Viber, or Skype are quite noted amongst Smartphone users but due to some reason only three out these- Whatsapp, We Chat and Line has been more popular with the users. Moreover Whasapp has even more users than We Chat and Line. So the question is why?
We all know that all these three applications are a cross-stage texting application for Android, ios, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and other working frameworks, that lets clients impart through content, voice, and pictures over Wi-Fi or cell systems. Then what special characteristic differentiates Whatsapp’s popularity than the other two? Let’s see.
Whatsapp was made around the year 2009 by Ian Koum. Whatsapp was initially propelled on the iphone, and battled at the outset, with simply a couple of dozen clients utilizing it actively. With time, since its unassuming beginnings in the year 2009, Whatsapp ballooned into a goliath, by stretching out to Android, Blackberry, and different stages, and by constantly including new characteristics. In the present situation, Whatsapp is the top driver for cell phone infiltration in India.
Another name similar to Whatsapp and rival to it in India is We Chat, Which is a portable content and voice informing correspondence administration created by Tencent in China, initially discharged in the year 2011. The application is accessible on Android, iphone, Blackberry, and Windows Phone.
There is another contender into this world of social application and cross-platform instant messaging subscription service, that supposedly give Whatsapp and we chat a fair competition in terms of users mostly in India, which is Line.
Line is a South Korean-Japanese restrictive provision for texting on cell phones and Pcs. Line, was launched in Japan in the year 2011, and soon arrived at 100 million clients within eighteen months & is increasing. Line was initially created as a portable provision for Android and ios cell phones. The administration has since extended to Blackberry, Nokia Asha, and Windows Phone and recently Firefox The provision additionally exists in adaptations for portable computer and desktop workstations utilizing the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS platforms.
But among all these three people love to use Whatsapp more to We chat and Line, especially in India for quick messages, and illustrations, along with other activities. Buy Why? What makes them so loyal to Whatsapp than the other two?
Interestingly, Whatsapp never went for rigorous promotion of their services and neither did they took help of special features or gimmicks like We chat and line to attract users, still people prefers to use Whatsapp than its two most strong rivals.
Why is Whatsapp so famous in India, without any “Ads, Games, and Gimmicks?”
All three – We Chat, Whatsapp, and Line- all have certain common features. Firstly all the three are exclusive, cross-stage texting membership administration for cell phones that uses the web for correspondence. To completely utilize these application to message friends and loved ones you will have to get your companions to utilize it too. Three of them have made people to switch from SMS to these services to send and accept messages, pictures, sound notes, and feature messages. MMS - a variant of SMS once utilized for sight and sound is now dead, thanks to these services. They all are available to Google Android, Blackberry OS, and Apple ios too. Here is where they equal to each other. But they all have certain special features attributed to them which are missing in the other. Let’s see what.
We Chat: Wechat’s have been launch into the spotlight in truly a gigantic path in India. To get used to Wechat's exceptionally befuddling interface on the off chance that you chooses to utilize it. There is the fundamental page from where you can get to your talks, a contacts page where you can deal with your associations and a social page that has four more alternatives.
With We chat you can send emoticons to companions and it also permits you to send stickers to companions. It accompanies a default set of enlivened stickers; however you can get more in the event that you need. All the stickers in the sticker shop are paid, however Wechat has advancements every so often that offer free stickers. Different stuffs you can send utilizing Wechat incorporates pictures, feature, area and name card. Wechat likewise has a walkie talkie ready for, you to send fast voice messages to your companions. Everything you need when enlisting another Wechat record is a substantial number for confirmation reason, once done, you will be provoked to put your name and Wechat ID. Wechat additionally offers a Facebook-like characteristic called Moments, permitting you to record down minutes of your life. Accessible in the "Me" menu, the page even has a collection photo covers much like the Cover Photo found on your Facebook profile. This page might be seen by your companions. When you log out of a gadget, you'll be incited to enter a secret word for that number. On the off chance that you overlook that number, Wechat permits you to effortlessly recover by means of SMS and you'll need to experience the check transform to start with once more.
LINE: When you are utilizing LINE shockingly, it naturally distinguishes the telephone number you have on the gadget. You can utilize Facebook to unite with LINE to discover companions effortlessly However, in the wake of entering in your number, it will send over a confirmation code and fill in the number consequently after which you'll be brought to an extremely essential screen that decides the level of security you get. LINE obliges you to have a username and secret key with the goal it should hold your individual subtle elements, for example, your profile picture. At the point when enrolling on another gadget, you must enter in the username and secret word.
On top of ordinary talking and sending emoticons with your companions, LINE likewise accompanies "stickers", additional extensive "emoticons" that goes past demonstrating the feeling of an individual. LINE was the application that made stickers well known and they might be found in very nearly all other informing applications aside from Whatsapp. You can download more stickers that are accessible for an expense and actually for nothing. Different things you can send to your companions incorporate Notes, photographs and features from exhibition, photographs and features from your Polaroid, sound messages, contact insight, your area, and even you can gift stickers to your companions.
LINE has an accumulation of distinctive applications which you can use inside the informing application itself like LINE Camera, which permits you to alter your pics utilizing LINE-themed things. Other LINE applications incorporate LINE Tools, LINE Bubble, LINE Play and the likes. You can win LINE Coins and use them to buy stickers and different goodies inside the application itself. Lastly, LINE likewise has a Facebook like Timeline characteristic that permits you to impart photographs and notices to your contacts.
WhatsApp: Whatsapp is the favoured approach to impart mixed media now - pictures, sound and feature for its quick and straightforward features. Its most mainstream characteristic today is its treatment of groups. This one thing takes it into the domain of online networking. Whatsapp gatherings are the new social gatherings in India. Whatsapp is an agreeable pioneer in portable informing in India, as it is in Europe and Latin America. Whatsapp is currently serving a whopping 300 million month to month dynamic users. With a moderately neater interface on Android, Whatsapp has the edge regarding looking satisfying to the eyes.
LINE has an accumulation of distinctive applications which you can use inside the informing application itself like LINE Camera, which permits you to alter your pics utilizing LINE-themed things. Other LINE applications incorporate LINE Tools, LINE Bubble, LINE Play and the likes. You can win LINE Coins and use them to buy stickers and different goodies inside the application itself. Lastly, LINE likewise has a Facebook like Timeline characteristic that permits you to impart photographs and notices to your contacts.
WhatsApp: Whatsapp is the favoured approach to impart mixed media now - pictures, sound and feature for its quick and straightforward features. Its most mainstream characteristic today is its treatment of groups. This one thing takes it into the domain of online networking. Whatsapp gatherings are the new social gatherings in India. Whatsapp is an agreeable pioneer in portable informing in India, as it is in Europe and Latin America. Whatsapp is currently serving a whopping 300 million month to month dynamic users. With a moderately neater interface on Android, Whatsapp has the edge regarding looking satisfying to the eyes.
Enrolling your gadget with Whatsapp is really direct. Everything you need to do is have a telephone number in that gadget itself, key it in, and Whatsapp will do the confirmation itself. You can send content, pictures, records from your display, pictures straightforwardly off you Polaroid, features, sound cuts, your current area and additionally contacts on Whatsapp.
Exchanging to another gadget is simple for Whatsapp yet as said in the enlistment process, you have to guarantee that that specific SIM card is on the telephone you wish to enrol Whatsapp on in light of the fact that the confirmation methodology will be carried out consequently. No username or secret word needed. This is pretty much the Whatsapp is all about. Interestingly, Whatsapp has no extra characteristics to offer to its users unlike its rivals!
Thus we see that apart from doing the basic work of sending pictures, text and sound message for its users, which is the main intention of all the applications like it(We Chat, Line etc), it has nothing special to offer unlike its rivals which has a lot of extra interesting features added to them. In spite of all these Whatsapp leads the chart in terms of user’s preference.
Another most important thing that differentiates Whatsapp from Line and We chat is its no add no promotion policy! In today’s market businesses runs on Promotion. No business or service can think of being successful without using the tool of promotion and in this highly competitive market Whatsapp has courageously decided to stay away from any sort of promotion, is it wise for them? Well the actual result says yes.
Japan-based Line messenger application has gone far in India by restricting in youth diva Katrina Kaif as its representative. LINE Corporation is doling out in excess of 1500 paid stickers worth Rs. 4000 to Indian clients to commend 400 million enlisted clients around the world. It crossed 18 million enlisted clients in India as of late and offered free talk time worth Rs. 50 to all its clients in India a few months ago. Recently LINE collaborated with Groupon India to offer selective week by week bargains for LINE clients. Free stickers might be accessible to download in the free tab in sticker shop inside the application. It has an extent of stickers from motion pictures, brands, football clubs, cricket alliances and that's just the beginning. It as of late included Cricket Champs stickers for Ipl. Line has even discharged another Ad recently emphasizing its brand minister Katrina Kaif, advertising the new sticker offer. On the other hand we chat the heading social correspondence application, has propelled its new showcasing battle to advertise the cool characteristics targeting Indian adolescents on Smart phones. We chat added new characteristics that are being advertised by Wechat in its Tvcs:
This popularity of Whatsapp can be better understood by the thinking of its founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton. Here is an excerpt from the founders of Whats app which I found on net and which precisely describes the reason of the applications popularity over others similar to it, in intended utilization:
“No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. We know people go to sleep excited about who they chatted with that day (and disappointed about who they didn't). We want Whats App to be the product that keeps you awake... and that you reach for in the morning. No one jumps up from a nap and runs to see an advertisement.
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data, upgrading the servers that hold all the data and making sure it's all being logged and collated and sliced and packaged and shipped out... And at the end of the day the result of it all is a slightly different advertising banner in your browser or on your mobile screen.
Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product.At Whats App, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.”
Exchanging to another gadget is simple for Whatsapp yet as said in the enlistment process, you have to guarantee that that specific SIM card is on the telephone you wish to enrol Whatsapp on in light of the fact that the confirmation methodology will be carried out consequently. No username or secret word needed. This is pretty much the Whatsapp is all about. Interestingly, Whatsapp has no extra characteristics to offer to its users unlike its rivals!
Thus we see that apart from doing the basic work of sending pictures, text and sound message for its users, which is the main intention of all the applications like it(We Chat, Line etc), it has nothing special to offer unlike its rivals which has a lot of extra interesting features added to them. In spite of all these Whatsapp leads the chart in terms of user’s preference.
Another most important thing that differentiates Whatsapp from Line and We chat is its no add no promotion policy! In today’s market businesses runs on Promotion. No business or service can think of being successful without using the tool of promotion and in this highly competitive market Whatsapp has courageously decided to stay away from any sort of promotion, is it wise for them? Well the actual result says yes.
Japan-based Line messenger application has gone far in India by restricting in youth diva Katrina Kaif as its representative. LINE Corporation is doling out in excess of 1500 paid stickers worth Rs. 4000 to Indian clients to commend 400 million enlisted clients around the world. It crossed 18 million enlisted clients in India as of late and offered free talk time worth Rs. 50 to all its clients in India a few months ago. Recently LINE collaborated with Groupon India to offer selective week by week bargains for LINE clients. Free stickers might be accessible to download in the free tab in sticker shop inside the application. It has an extent of stickers from motion pictures, brands, football clubs, cricket alliances and that's just the beginning. It as of late included Cricket Champs stickers for Ipl. Line has even discharged another Ad recently emphasizing its brand minister Katrina Kaif, advertising the new sticker offer. On the other hand we chat the heading social correspondence application, has propelled its new showcasing battle to advertise the cool characteristics targeting Indian adolescents on Smart phones. We chat added new characteristics that are being advertised by Wechat in its Tvcs:
- Sharing your ongoing area: With this you can share your area on a guide and see where all your companions are in a gathering chat.
- Companion Radar: Meet companions and trade contacts at just one tap!
- Top picks with distributed storage: Never lose your previous memories or your valuable gadget space! Add anything in your Wechat to top choices and it is spared to a 1 GB free distributed storage space.
- Feature Call: Distances melt and connections develop stronger with a Video Call on Wechat!
This popularity of Whatsapp can be better understood by the thinking of its founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton. Here is an excerpt from the founders of Whats app which I found on net and which precisely describes the reason of the applications popularity over others similar to it, in intended utilization:
“No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. We know people go to sleep excited about who they chatted with that day (and disappointed about who they didn't). We want Whats App to be the product that keeps you awake... and that you reach for in the morning. No one jumps up from a nap and runs to see an advertisement.
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data, upgrading the servers that hold all the data and making sure it's all being logged and collated and sliced and packaged and shipped out... And at the end of the day the result of it all is a slightly different advertising banner in your browser or on your mobile screen.
Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product.At Whats App, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.”
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