I never thought I’d see this day. I thought we’d get aliens on the White House lawn before Apple ever caved.

I hope it works seamlessly but, more importantly, will the bubbles all be blue once RCS is added? Will we be able to turn off read receipts and typing indicators?

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    1 year ago

    It’s made by a former WhatsApp co-founder and another person after Facebook bought it. It’s meant to be a WhatsApp replacement with more privacy. The original WhatsApp founders had a vision of having a free messaging service with no ads or no selling your data but struggled to keep WhatsApp running without much revenue. Therefore, when Facebook offered them 19 billion dollars, they couldn’t resist it and gave in as they had also promised to keep their app’s vision the same but of course they didn’t.