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WhatsApp? Is this so difficult to program? Just VOIP and messaging? The Chinese WeChat hat much for features (e.g. send money, pay etc.) And even my mother has
by jayalpha 8y ago
WhatsApp? Is this so difficult to program? Just VOIP and messaging? The Chinese WeChat hat much for features (e.g. send money, pay etc.)
And even my mother has installed Threema on her phone because a friend of her asked for it. This tells you something. It is hard to come up with another social network like facebook. But a chatting client on the phone? The tide can change very fast there.
Threema gets used more in Europe than in the states. But even a US buddy recently suggested we switch to threema. It is closed source but claims to offer more privacy.
https://threema.ch/en https://threema.ch/en
- statictype 8y agoChat apps also have network effects. People use Whatsapp because that's what everyone else uses. I would prefer Signal but no one I know uses it. Everyone I know uses Whatsapp. So I use Whatsapp.
- josteink 8y agoClearly anecdotal. Nobody I know uses WhatsApp. So I don’t use WhatsApp. See how that works?
- function_seven 8y agoIf you count the number of anecdotes on the WhatsApp side vs. Signal or other similar networks, you will find that a massive quantitative difference. There are about 1,000 WhatsApp users for every 1 Telegram or Signal user. The anecdote is supposed to show why one can't just write their own app. It doesn't work that way.
- jayalpha 8y agoNo, it does. I am not going to post the same story on five different social networks. But I can easily have 5 different chatting clients on my phone.
- statictype 8y agoHow many people do you know who are happy to have 5 different chatting apps on their phone and remember which one to use to talk to which person? Consider that you're a distant outlier.
- unforeseen9991 8y agoI use 4, and it's not difficult to remember, for anyone worth chatting to. You just naturally remember, like you would remember where your friends live. I guess if you are constantly dealing with "contacts" rather then friends it would get confusing.
- jayalpha 8y agoMost people have facebook and instagramm on their phone which could be already seen as "chatting apps". I don't use them for chatting. I use 1. WeChat 2. WhatsApp 3. Threema 4. Frozenchat, a Jabber client with OTR support Don't have signal yet. Ah, and I can "chat" via Text message too :-)
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- kkarakk 8y ago1. no one uses this outside of china,they failed in their push to even india 2. global leader right now 3. as compromised as whatsapp,has data compliance with multiple countries 4. no name fork of a no name
- based2 8y agohttps://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-rcs-messaging/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-rcs-messaging/
- tomcooks 8y agoHow can you trust them wwhen the code isn't open? I'll stick to signal
- solatic 8y ago> WhatsApp? Is this so difficult to program? Just VOIP and messaging? Yes, it actually is that difficult to program. To scale to WhatsApp's level, you can't just base all your message-delivery off a Kafka cluster and be done with it. Amazon Chime still hasn't been deployed outside of us-east-1 and seems nowhere close to a global deployment. The engineering effort to provide low-latency communications, at geographic and user scale, is very much non-trivial.