Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS
Whatever you send or receive, end-to-end encryption protects your messages from being this exposed. Doroteya Borisova / PhoneArena : WhatsApp CEO hints at iPad app release Juli Clover / MacRumors : WhatsApp Chief Confirms iPad App is a Possibility: 'We'd Love to Do It' Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : WhatsApp exec says company ‘would love’ to release an iPad app at some point Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : WhatsApp Kicking Off First-Ever US Marketing Push With New Ad [VIDEO] Jules Wang / Android Police : Facebook Messenger groups now have end-to-end encryption for calls and chats David Pierce / Protocol : WhatsApp conquered the world, and now it's coming for the US David Cohen / Adweek : WhatsApp's First US Brand Campaign Seeks to Deliver Doubt About SMS David Cohen / Adweek : WhatsApp's First US Brand Campaign Seeks to Deliver Doubt About SMS Jeff Beer / Fast Company : WhatsApp wants Americans to know strangers could be reading your SMS texts Tweets: @yangcliu : @alexeheath @wcathcart Can they make a darn iPad app so I don't have to deal with this every 4 min? https://twitter.com/... Michael Brown / @mabrownjr : In the cross-platform messaging space, for the time being, it seems like it's Meta vs. Apple vs. GSMA + Google. I wonder how much of what Cathartic is saying is accurate. Will it take too long for RCS to even come close to the level of iMessage & WhatsApp security & reliability? https://twitter.com/... Saran / @saranbyte : There's been talk regarding WhatsApp for iPad since August, but nothing is yet to materialise lol - so yeah, I doubt they'll ever release this https://twitter.com/... Michael Brown / @mabrownjr : I know this is all speculation, but I wonder if @wcathcart's “decentralized systems” reason for not supporting RCS within WhatsApp could also be the reason why Apple isn't supporting RCS within the iPhone's default Messages app? 🤔 https://www.theverge.com/... Alex Heath / @alexeheath : I talked to the head of WhatsApp, @wcathcart, about his new focus on getting users in the US. We also touched on RCS, iMessage, and WhatsApp working on a “Communities” feature https://www.theverge.com/... Joe Rossignol / @rsgnl : Ah yes, the same company that has yet to release an Instagram app for iPad. I'll believe it when I see it. https://twitter.com/... @verge : Head of WhatsApp on releasing an iPad app: “We'd love to do it” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... @pranavdixit : Rare instance of a US app saturating non-US markets first and then looking inwards. “The next 300 or so million” doesn't have the same ring as “The next billion” though. https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : WhatsApp launched its first marketing campaign in the U.S. this morning promoting its privacy features (i.e. E2E encryption) Video shows a mailman delivering mail that was already open. That's basically SMS, WhatsApp says. https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : A Facebook app pitching itself as the pro-privacy option seems like a marketing high-wire act. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg : “Meta is kicking off the first-ever US marketing push for WhatsApp, focusing on the privacy offered by the app's encryption.” Facebook marketing privacy as a feature. Zuck probably spent hours trying to say that without giggling. https://www.theverge.com/...