If you follow us regularly, you might remember when we talked about the disparity between Android users and Apple users a while back What has been called “green bubble hate”.. We talk about this in depth in our article on Tim Cook’s answer to iMessage support for Google’s RCS protocol, which is used in SMS services.
It is true that we do not have that problem in Europe. Here and in other regions, more messaging applications are used, such as Telegram and WhatsApp, the next property of the almighty Meta directed by Mark Zuckerberg. It’s just who Zuckerberg himself is scorned iMessage As reported by GSMArena.
“Private Bubble”, that’s how Meta WhatsApp sells encryption
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg favors WhatsApp over iMessage and Google Messages.
In an Instagram post, the owner of Meta (which, as we recall, includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) assured that WhatsApp “much more private and secure than iMessage”. True, it has end-to-end encryption that works agnostic for iOS and Android, and it also works on group chats, chat backups, and temporary messages. According to the businessman, iMessage has none (And neither does Google Messages, since they also take advantage of the SMS protocol infrastructure.)
The image we see in Zuckerberg’s post is an ad for Penn Station, part of an ad campaign that began in the US in January 2022 and has now expanded. There is an idea behind it Educate the American public about the importance of encrypted communications (And increase WhatsApp users in countries like ours).
It is true that WhatsApp is one of the most used apps worldwide, in the US Apple continues to corner the market with iMessage. The people of Cupertino enjoy enormous economic benefits derived from their messaging app, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be relinquishing their throne in the near future.
On the other hand, we must remember that, according to Will Cathcart, Director of WhatsApp at Meta, 5.5 billion SMS messages are sent in the United States.. According to the manager, the public “should be made aware of the importance of end-to-end encryption” because “sending SMS messages is not secure.”
