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Apples to oranges. Telegram's been around close to a year or so now. They are an established mainstream app and they look like an obvious "WhatsApp replacement
by eps 13y ago
Apples to oranges.
Telegram's been around close to a year or so now. They are an established mainstream app and they look like an obvious "WhatsApp replacement" if one is looking for one. Far fewer people are looking for a secure IM app per se, so your numbers aren't really that surprising. Regrettably, unwashed gray masses don't give a flying f#ck about quality of the crypto, so TS doing crypto better is not a tangible conversion benefit.
- OGC 13y ago> they look like an obvious "WhatsApp replacement" The android version looks _exactly_ alike (except for different color scheme).
- 10feet 13y agoWhy do people say that? Apples and oranges are very comparably, just as these to apps are very comparable. Just because you disagree with one datapoint doesn't mean you can't compare them.
- rjzzleep 13y agoi actually think the sign up process of textsecure is more obvious than telegrams. but i found that use it to transparently send sms when needed super confusing to people. people don't want to use sms. if they did they would just use that instead. in cyanogenmod it's even more confusing. cyanogenmod integrated it to their base system, but you have no way of knowing if the text message you just sent is really encrypted or not (unless the other party tells you since he's running textsecure), i'm guessing/hoping that'll improve though