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WhatsApp requires your phone (and it must be a phone) to be on and connected to WiFi, using battery, to use their desktop "app". This is terrible usability. I
by morsch 9y ago
WhatsApp requires your phone (and it must be a phone) to be on and connected to WiFi, using battery, to use their desktop "app". This is terrible usability.
I can understand it'd be very annoying when you're affected -- eg having to work in an area with ethernet, but without wifi/3G, or when you need a fallback when the phone is out of battery. For the most part, it's a non-issue for me.
Signal uses the same basic protocol and doesn't require the phone to be online all the time.
Chances are the WhatsApp implementation chose a trade off that minimized confusion for less sophisticated users (within the constraints of maintaining confidentiality). That tends to be a good idea when you've got a billion users.
If I sign in to a new device on Telegram ..., I can instantly have my entire message history available
Including "secret chats"?
- jakebasile 9y ago> That tends to be a good idea when you've got a billion users. Telegram has a lot of users as well. It's a design choice for sure, but I disagree with it and it doesn't work for me personally. Their lack of support for anything but phones is my primary concern though - I could maybe stomach the requirement for my primary device to be online, but simply not making at least an iPad and preferably a macOS app is a no go for me. > Including "secret chats"? No, Telegram secret chats are device to device and can't be backed up or transferred. This is also why I rarely used them.
- literallycancer 9y agoAh, so Telegram history sync works so well that not only you have your history instantly available, but everyone else does as well :)
- jakebasile 9y agoThis possibility is not lost on me, and I have made an informed decision to accept that.