Hahah, I don't know what else to say about an app like Watsapp. Especially considering the fact that at the moment it is owned by Facebook. I believe the less popular ones are the safest applications. For example, Utopia p2p is a decentralized application that has never been seen in cybersecurity scandals.
WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users
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Re: WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users
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> Microsoft refuse to accept Smartphone is the future of computing hence there never was MSN on Smartphone. This. When WhatsApp came around, it wasn't free, but it was the a lightweight cross-platform mobile chat that worked . The only other smartphone-friendly chat app was Blackberry Messenger (BBM) -- and only on Blackberry. iMessage didn't exist. Google Chat was light and unobtrusive on the desktop, and there were…
> When WhatsApp came around, it wasn't free. For me, the fact that WhatsApp wasn't free was a plus. "Hey, maybe for once I am not the product". How naive of me.
To clarify, the fact that WhatsApp wasn’t free (but very cheap) was a positive in my mind as well. I didn’t intend “not free” in my comment above to be derisory.
Also, to add some nuance: WhatsApp wasn’t free (ie it was a subscription based app) mainly in US / Western Europe IIRC; but was in fact free, as in no subscription charges, in some lower-income country app stores, eg India.