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Signal only works on phones and chrome desktop right now. So other devices are anyway out of question. Their goal has always been secure messaging for the masse
by bubblethink 10y ago
Signal only works on phones and chrome desktop right now. So other devices are anyway out of question. Their goal has always been secure messaging for the masses, and not necessarily secure messaging for everyone and everything under the sun. I think it's a fair trade-off if it helps them get the user base by keeping it simple and similar to WhatsApp. Even in its current form, it's incredible difficult to get people to use it. It would be much worse if it were any more complex UI-wise.
- ReverseCold 10y agoYes, chat needs to not be just basic texting or no one will use it. iOS users get iMessage which is great, but there's no cross platform version. Telegram + Encrypted by default and in groups would be best, but they have some (invalid) reason for keeping it unencrypted.
- Anon1096 10y agoThere's a lot of features Telegram offers that can't be used with e2e encryption. Stuff like link previews and many bot functionalities are things that come to mind that my group uses very frequently.
- a_imho 10y agoI'm sure they would not mind a whatsapp like buyout offer, at least as an option. That, and secure messaging for the masses.