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As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance (www.nytimes.com)

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As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance::Apple, which is set to release a new iPhone on Tuesday, has increased its share of smartphone sales by converting Android customers and adding teenagers.

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[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's WhatsApp?

Edit: nm i googled it. It's a way to sacrifice your privacy and security while supporting an evil company. I'm cool...

[-] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 56 points 1 year ago

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

[-] solarvector@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago

There are more than two options for messaging now.

Both primary phone platforms are kinda shit though.

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 14 points 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!

[-] idefix@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I can't believe you seriously asked what WhatsApp is... where do you come from?

[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Dude could be Chinese..

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] idefix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome! You should definitely investigate Signal and start recommending it to others. Meta is evil and can't be trusted. Or privacy is critical to our survival. Party on, Comrade

[-] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was a Signal fan until they decided to drop SMS. Now it's just an app with 1% of my friends.

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Why are you attached to sms?

[-] idefix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Because that's the universal text messaging platform - everybody's got it. And because we're receiving messages from companies via SMS.

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I don't care about that. Security trumps convenience for me and i have to say that signal is pretty convenient.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 13 points 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.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, good point.

[-] wax@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 year ago

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

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