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Brumby:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 10, 2021, 01:54:55 am ---Signal is not a social media platform. It's a secure communications application.

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That is what creates interest for me!
Gyro:
Signal seems to want a hell of a lot of permissions compared to VSee. Just saying.


P.S. Ah, yes, it does support iPhone / iPad / Mac
tooki:

--- Quote from: CJay on January 10, 2021, 10:14:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on January 10, 2021, 08:19:15 pm ---The point is, every other communication channel I use, without exception, works on my phone, iPad, and computers. Meaning that I can have any single device nearby for all those services. But no, not WhatsApp, they leave out the iPad.

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Well, damn, I never knew that, you're right, it's not even available on iPads with 4G and a SIM, I wonder what the reasoning behind that is

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My hunch is something to do with their fundamental architecture, since the desktop apps (which I suspect are simply encapsulated websites) demand a connection to your phone. But nonetheless, if they can somehow manage to have the phone retransmit the messages to a website, they should be able to then have that website initiate push notifications to a native iPad app.

Alas, they have no motivation to do so, having expressly stated that they have no plans to develop an iPad version  |O
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: rsjsouza on January 10, 2021, 02:50:19 am ---
--- Quote from: S. Petrukhin on January 10, 2021, 12:14:06 am ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on January 09, 2021, 11:41:58 pm ---Thank you for the heads up; I will investigate.

Obviously that, several years after installing such great product, the switch becomes extremely hard especially living abroad and keeping in touch with family and friends. Oh well...

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Don't be dramatic. :)
Whatsapp is not so good and it is not better than other messengers - it is not difficult to make the transition to any other. Well, a couple of minutes of excitement and discomfort from the new environment, which you may like more.

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My wife and I can adapt easily to any interface thrown at us; try that with my elderly inlaws and family that live overseas and do not have me around to teach them the ropes. THAT'S what is hard to switch.

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I just had this discussion with my parents. So I want them to stop using Skype, mainly because it is a broken software, that doesn't work.
Like, microphone quality is dogpoo compared to anything else on the phone, and half the time it locks up on the desktop, showing you offline while not and so on. Anyway...

So I learned that  they registered on FB. They use MSN messenger, which is "Not that bad, since FB got it". And they are not interested in switching to anything else, in fact I'm the weird one for using something else than everyone. They dont remember the login information, it is saved on their laptop as a TXT file, and there is no backup. And the email they created the account with - it doesnt even work anymore.

Here in the NL, there are companies that cannot even be reached by anything else than Whatsapp. Email bounces back, phone doesnt get picked up. And I'm not talking about the local bakery. These were real estate agents and companies that do accounting for your tax return.
So, I gave up on this completely. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
BravoV:

--- Quote from: NANDBlog on January 11, 2021, 02:32:29 pm ---So, I gave up on this completely. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

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Yep, me too, and I guess most converts here are employees, or Elon Musk type of business man.  :P

In my case, I'm an entrepreneur, you just can not keep bugging and nagging people especially your high valued clients/customers to move to other chat platform you preferred personally, it is bad for business and just suicidal.
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