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Not to forget that WhatsApp started out without E2E and didn't implement E2E for quite a while. WhatsApp simply won the race by being there early on and gettin
by eXpl0it3r 8y ago
Not to forget that WhatsApp started out without E2E and didn't implement E2E for quite a while.
WhatsApp simply won the race by being there early on and getting the critical mass. From there on out people are locked in, because everyone else is there.
- beagle3 8y agoI would add: WhatsApp was there, free and very well done. Even in countries that had free domestic text messages (where the “free” factor was much less important), WhatsApp nailed group messaging better than anything else available at the time. Also, by using phone numbers they skipped the entire “create account / invite friends” stage, making for a much smoother bootstrap.