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> Wire is not financed by ads. Your personal data or the content of your conversations are never sold or rented to anyone, and it will not be used for any third

by moreira 10y ago

> Wire is not financed by ads. Your personal data or the content of your conversations are never sold or rented to anyone, and it will not be used for any third party advertising. Does anyone know how it's financed? Without a clear business model, it's hard to trust anyone these days. If it was an open source project just for the sake of having an open source solution, that'd be one thing, but the website mentions Jobs, and has a web-based app run by them, so there's real money being invested here, and at some point they'll have to reap profits from it.

walterbell 10y ago
Their Twitter account [0] mentioned plans for paid premium services. Features are being added at a steady pace (monthly?), so this seems plausible. Rdio (common investor) lasted five years, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdio If they go under, it may be possible to build an open-source client+server that is inspired by their current OSS client. In fact, that effort can start now, as an insurance policy. Edit: found a Mar 2016 interview with Janus Friis (who is financing and chairing the company), they have 50 employees in Berlin and are seeing 150K new user signups per month, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/amid-apple-s-fbi-fight-app-developers-are-ramping-up-encryption http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/amid-apple... [0] https://twitter.com/wire https://twitter.com/wire