Re:Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of Wha...
by tsunamifury on Monday April 15, 2019 @06:07PM
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Note that the horse a buggy was wildly popular before the car came along, so as this follows Tesla would be find starting a horse and buggy company. I'm a bit exaggerated in my sarcasm here to really illustrate how arrogant it is to assume that features you don't value are 'cosmetic blemishes' when they really do fundamentally hinder the adoption of the product. While you may value security as a priority that overcomes all others, but most by network effect influence, do not. And if you really care about security, it follows that the 'cosmetics' matter as well.
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Re:Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of Wha...
by nothrabannosir on Monday April 15, 2019 @06:23PM
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Yes, although pushing a firmware update to turn a horse carriage into a model Y is, perhaps, slightly less practical than adding Markdown support to a chat client.
The original comment was a blanket "much more inferior in terms of functionality and usability." I hope to elucidate that, in the context of a DARPA grant, it might be worth the effort to look to the future, and differentiate between fundamental problems and fixable issues.
I wouldn't say the same for an XMPP client, for example. But WhatsApp and signal are very, very close.
Perhaps even closer than a horse and a model Y. ;)