Ask HN: Why did WhatsApp become so popular, but not Signal?

1 points by lenova ↗ HN

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- signal requires users to manually verify connections to secure them and no one does - it's group chat is buggy and featureless - it's community is run by a terse extreme anarchist
You mean the what's app co-founder ?
Platform coverage, at one point of Time Whatsapp was available almost every mobile platform including those medium range Nokia smartphones. Next is the (small) size of the app and low data usage