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