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Sounds like you could get a stable VoIP number and just use that. One time cost and has its uses for cheap long distance calling.
Most people expect you to have 1 mobile phone number, not separate ones for calling and messaging.
Wow that's impressive. But I would imagine WhatsApp/Facebook can just change their protocol at any time since it is easy to redeploy a new version of the WhatsApp Web client, thus breaking any 3p clients built on the original protocol. That would require yet another reverse engineering effort that can take a while. And by the time its reverse engineered again, they can yet again change the protocol. So the only relia…
I've wanted to create my own WhatsApp client that's and actual native desktop application. If this reverse-engineering process continues, it might now be possible. It's irritating when people say "Signal/WhatsApp has a desktop app!" because technically, they're right, but I have enough web browsers on my system already, thank you very much
What would it do differently?
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Most people expect you to have 1 mobile phone number, not separate ones for calling and messaging.
I don't see the problem. Once you've registered with your messaging service, like WhatsApp, you're sending messages to people not numbers.
I see a lot of "just use X instead." Unfortunately, unlike the old chat protocols, switching to any other platform means convincing your contacts to use a new platform. They like you and all, but that means they also have to use a special app just to talk with you now.
What the hell are we doing?
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I wish signal had a webapp.
Not very likely any time soon. There was a long debate about it and they decided that putting your trust entirely in the CA system and Signal's servers every time to not serve a malicious client that couldn't be validated by the user wasn't acceptable.
I just don't want any more applications open.
I'm CA's will be bypassed soon. There's a lot of brain attention on this.