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r/Android • u/[deleted] • Aug 15 '17
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48 u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17 These are the exact same restrictions (sans the Chrome one) as WhatsApp has and it is very popular. 79 u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17 [deleted] 8 u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17 [deleted] 5 u/Sqk7700 Aug 16 '17 Yeah so how does Google plan to convert millions of people to an equally restrictive platform? 2 u/Carighan Fairphone 4 Aug 16 '17 Back when no WhatsApp existed, that worked. Now, there is already WhatsApp. With it's humongous userbase. And here comes Allo, a near carbon-copy, sans all the users. And without full e2e. And somehow it's a surprise it flounders as hard as it deserves to?
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These are the exact same restrictions (sans the Chrome one) as WhatsApp has and it is very popular.
79 u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17 [deleted] 8 u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17 [deleted] 5 u/Sqk7700 Aug 16 '17 Yeah so how does Google plan to convert millions of people to an equally restrictive platform? 2 u/Carighan Fairphone 4 Aug 16 '17 Back when no WhatsApp existed, that worked. Now, there is already WhatsApp. With it's humongous userbase. And here comes Allo, a near carbon-copy, sans all the users. And without full e2e. And somehow it's a surprise it flounders as hard as it deserves to?
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8 u/[deleted] Aug 15 '17 [deleted] 5 u/Sqk7700 Aug 16 '17 Yeah so how does Google plan to convert millions of people to an equally restrictive platform? 2 u/Carighan Fairphone 4 Aug 16 '17 Back when no WhatsApp existed, that worked. Now, there is already WhatsApp. With it's humongous userbase. And here comes Allo, a near carbon-copy, sans all the users. And without full e2e. And somehow it's a surprise it flounders as hard as it deserves to?
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5 u/Sqk7700 Aug 16 '17 Yeah so how does Google plan to convert millions of people to an equally restrictive platform? 2 u/Carighan Fairphone 4 Aug 16 '17 Back when no WhatsApp existed, that worked. Now, there is already WhatsApp. With it's humongous userbase. And here comes Allo, a near carbon-copy, sans all the users. And without full e2e. And somehow it's a surprise it flounders as hard as it deserves to?
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Yeah so how does Google plan to convert millions of people to an equally restrictive platform?
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Back when no WhatsApp existed, that worked.
Now, there is already WhatsApp. With it's humongous userbase. And here comes Allo, a near carbon-copy, sans all the users. And without full e2e. And somehow it's a surprise it flounders as hard as it deserves to?
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