> They won’t do that until they have a different app supporting E2E. Why would they voluntarily lose all E2E users to a competitor? I would like to be optimist

> They won’t do that until they have a different app supporting E2E. Why would they voluntarily lose all E2E users to a competitor? I would like to be optimistic, but the realist in me thinks the number of users for which end-to-end encryption is a vital feature is vanishingly small. And maybe all FB needs to do to keep those users is to make end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp opt-in, so they can provide ~~"wonderful new features to you"~~ if you keep it off.