Comment on As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance

hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s WhatsApp?

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  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As if iMessage, the platform that requires hardware from a specific company, is much better.

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    • solarvector@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are more than two options for messaging now.

      Both primary phone platforms are kinda shit though.

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    • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m a Signal man myself but iMessage’s faults don’t make WhatsApp any better and that’s a blatant whataboutism, fuck!

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  • idefix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t believe you seriously asked what WhatsApp is… where do you come from?

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    • Gsus4@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dude could be Chinese…

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    • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Compton fool! But i think the real excuse is I’m old and don’t do social media other than this.

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      • idefix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Everyone around me have family groups on WhatsApp, including 90+ old grandmas.

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funnily enough, WhatsApp being E2E encrypted means it’s one of the more private and secure chat apps out there.

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    • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It still records who you talk to, as well as how much and when. That info is held by the biggest peddler in privacy info out there. No way I trust Facebook/meta as much as any of the other e2e chat clients.

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      • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, other options are better. Implying that it’s completely unsecure is just misleading.

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem is, it’s not open source… so whole E2E encryption is based on “trust us” method. We have no idea if implementation is any good or if it at all does what hey claim it does. Sure at some point they might have paid some company to do independent review but it’s not on version-by-version basis.

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    • wax@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      E2E encrypted between facebook app #1 and facebook app #2, sure

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