Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013

Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by dmak on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:55PM (#26975711)

You found Signal very sub-par for everyday messaging when compared to WhatsApp? May I ask how so? Because I found those 2 of the many I use to be very similar if not the same.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by nvr219 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:30PM (#26975971)

Reposting something I posted a few months ago:

The biggest reason is larger user base. But here are two things I do in WhatsApp that I can't do in Signal:

- Share live location. If I need to meet up with somebody, or let someone know how far away I am and when I'm arriving, I use share live location. "Share for 1 hour." In Signal you can share your location at a moment in time but it doesn't update.

- Broadcast messages ("mass text" basically). In WhatsApp I can send a message to a list of people without the people on the list seeing each other (to them it looks like I messaged them 1:1). In Signal I would have to use a group and all the members would see each other.

And now to add:

- Message history across apps. When I install the signal desktop app, it doesn't pull the message history with it.

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Re:Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013 by js2 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:31PM (#26975979)

It's been awhile since I tried Signal. At the time, the UI was sluggish and I don't think it even had a share extension. I'll give it a fresh try.

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