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> How? If you are stuck in one of the countries where more than 90% of citizens use WhatsApp, your choices are not to use WhatsApp, or to get an Android or IOS
by wolfgke 7y ago
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How? If you are stuck in one of the countries where more than 90% of citizens use WhatsApp, your choices are not to use WhatsApp, or to get an Android or IOS smartphone.
So you decide for the former.
- Freak_NL 7y agoThat is fine, but it doesn't answer the question how Librem is purportedly solving that problem.
- wolfgke 7y ago> That is fine, but it doesn't answer the question how Librem is purportedly solving that problem. By not supporting WhatsApp, it forces the user to solve the problem that he/she makes a very bad decision with respect to his/her privacy.
- Freak_NL 7y agoI fully support that approach, but this effectively means accepting that the majority uses a tool you cannot or will not use. Librem is never going to be in a position with sufficient market share to counter the network effect of WhatsApp in countries that are hooked on it. Hence my question in response to gregknicholson's statement: >> This is one of the problems the Librem 5 is designed to solve. > How?
- gregknicholson 7y agoBy providing a coherent set of easy-to-use, privacy-respecting alternatives. It makes it easier for those who _want_ to switch, but don't have the confidence/skill/energy to figure everything out on their own. Similarly, Disroot made it easy to switch away from Google, by providing a complete (for my purposes) drop-in replacement; Ubuntu made it easy to switch from Windows.