also from the article: mock-up picture showing WhatsApp running on the phone.
I get it that it would be running Android apps through the compatibility layer on SailfishOS, but that means it’s not private. Whatsapp will know lots of things about you.
I don’t use it, but unfortunately Whatsapp is the de-facto messaging app for a very large percentage of the world population (especially outside of the US) and so the trade-off people are stuck in is use Whatsapp or be cut off from friends/family/anyone else who doesn’t care about Zuck peeping their DMs (aka, the vast majority of people).
WhatsApp entered just at the right time in my country. Despite SMS being the defacto way we text people pre iPhone, somehow WhatsApp captured the market here. May be that because the iPhone was expensive for a lot of us and most people instead went with the touch symbian phones and the likes instead and android phones were also still a bit expensive. And back then we don’t have carrier financed phone purchasing culture
from the article:
also from the article: mock-up picture showing WhatsApp running on the phone.
I get it that it would be running Android apps through the compatibility layer on SailfishOS, but that means it’s not private. Whatsapp will know lots of things about you.
I don’t use it, but unfortunately Whatsapp is the de-facto messaging app for a very large percentage of the world population (especially outside of the US) and so the trade-off people are stuck in is use Whatsapp or be cut off from friends/family/anyone else who doesn’t care about Zuck peeping their DMs (aka, the vast majority of people).
So? Is this a privacy-oriented phone, or does it wanna do whatsapp? They have to pick one.
It’s a dumb phone to combat doomscrolling, not a privacy oriented phone. The de-Googling is a side effect, not a selling point.
WhatsApp entered just at the right time in my country. Despite SMS being the defacto way we text people pre iPhone, somehow WhatsApp captured the market here. May be that because the iPhone was expensive for a lot of us and most people instead went with the touch symbian phones and the likes instead and android phones were also still a bit expensive. And back then we don’t have carrier financed phone purchasing culture