Re:How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability
by up6w6 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:58AM
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Can anyone explain to me the main obstacles for Signal to succeed ? I keep thinking about how strange is that we can maintain complex open-source projects like linux but we cannot join forces and create a good open-source messaging app, which is a thing almost everyone with a smartphone uses, I know its not the same thing and you need someone to take care of infrastructure etc, but I still think its strange.
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Re:How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability
by MomoXenosaga on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:13PM
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Because getting to 1 billion users is hard. Google tried it.
Basically people have been using their favourite messaging apps for years now and if they're satisfied they aren't going to switch.