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WhatsApp is even better than Telegram.
by static_noise 9y ago
WhatsApp is even better than Telegram.
- izacus 9y agoUntil you try to install it on your tablet and finding out you can't use it there.
- soziawa 9y agoBut it shares all the metadata with Facebook which sucks. Threema and Signal are better in that respect and you loose almost no features.
- huhtenberg 9y agoIt shares your full _contacts_ with Facebook. This doesn't just "suck", it's completely unacceptable.
- soziawa 9y agoWhile bad I think it's worse that the location available through your IP is available to facebook. Further they can guess with which contacts you work with, are good or not so good friends with. And it will be kept forever at Facebook and at companies like Cambridge Analytica.
- 18pfsmt 9y agoHow do you think Telegram plans to monetize? I realize they had an ICO that raised $850M, but that is not a sustainable revenue mechanism in and of itself.
- lloeki 9y agoIn terms of UX I beg to differ. Everyone I've been in contact with likes WhatsApp because it's sort of "iMessage for Android" or "Skype, only less worse" and use it mostly because their contacts are using it. The moment they have enough contacts on Telegram they just don't look back and find it a much more pleasant experience.
- orbifold 9y agoNot true WhatsApp has a very anoying and jarring "floating keyboard" bug for some time now. Basically it breaks and lags for a few seconds if you quickly switch between portrait and landscape mode.