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@lemy.lolHonestly, a very impressive move. Makes me way more confident in the trajectory of the company and I'm happy to have been a visionary user for multiple years.
I wonder, though, just how much of Proton A.G. does the foundation now own? They say it's the largest shareholder, but they didn't say "majority shareholder".
This. Nowadays people mostly buy TVs when their old ones break. There's no marginal improvement. The industry is here to stay, but its high growth days are in the past.
From my experience of getting other people on Signal, the main issue is that not everyone is already on it. People generally want to use only one app and it attracts them to the most popular one because they don't need to switch as much.
Secondary issues are:
I might add another one, but it applies to WhatsApp too - it's crazy that there's still no easy way to move between iOS and Android...
Wdym "boring", what do you want a messenger app to do? It does what it's there for and it does it well.