Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage
machinin@lemmy.world 1 year agoIf it’s so benign, why make it necessary to give all the information about all your contacts to the app?
To paraphrase Zuckerberg, “people are dumbfucks for giving me so much information.”
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How else do you think a messaging app that replaces your phones messaging functionality is supposed to work if not on phone numbers?
machinin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So you’re saying that the only way a messaging app can work is to access all the information from all your contacts? If it doesn’t have all that information, it can’t work? If Whatsapp can’t have all that information, it would be impossible to function?
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, it’s fully possible to have its own account and log in system, but that adds a layer of abstraction that makes it harder to sell to people as a replacement for their inbuilt messaging apps which just require a phone number.
machinin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you give Facebook any benefit of the doubt in relation to privacy concerns, I guess I can only believe Zuckerberg to be correct.