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As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 61 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Outside the US, no one cares. Most people use WhatsApp and they don't care what hardware it runs on.

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  • [+] -24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why are you attached to sms?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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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