Frankly Signal is so horribly buggy with basic features that I wonder had arthurcolle ever used it?

I can’t create a new group, but my friends can.

I don’t see friends that join Signal until I search for them manually by phone number, even though I allow Signal access to my contacts.

”So much better”?!?

I use it all the time. I don't do group chats much, but I use it for 1-on-1 communication. It's so much better in my opinion because 1) it satisfies my needs and 2) I trust the provider, based on the reputation that has been developed around Moxie Marlinspike and the fact that all facets of Signal are open source. Telegram is not. Furthermore, Telegram tried to pull a quick 1 billion quasi-raise with their TON bs platform, which was a joke from the very beginning. Seriously, pull up the initial whitepaper for that platform system - total cash grab.

So yeah, @arthurcolle has used Signal, and likes it.

Such dystopia, it gives me the shivers!

How is a company building a product that no one will use a dystopia?

Perhaps that no one in your circles will use. To hundreds of millions of people around the world, Facebook is the internet. They are the target market.

Do the same hundreds of millions of people that still use Facebook have both the tech affinity and the spare bucks to shell out money for a Oculus headset?

Soon, it will become cheap.

To hundreds of millions of people around the world, a significant amount of leisure time and 449 euros is a pipe dream.

Total throwback. The good ol’ days!

When starting to read the article, I thought it would be either about meeting potential customers in the parkinh lot or spending that time to walk with your kid..

So how many people ebola ever killed? Compared to, for instance, cancer or traffic accidents?

If you are making the point that we'd better address cancer or traffic accidents, then your argument falls under the false dichotomy fallacy. This is probably why you've been downvoted.

If your were not making this point, then I don't have the answer. :-)

Besides cancer numbers are a bit inflated because people are living more now. If you live long enough the odds of getting cancer is quite high. Whilst it's always good to extend life even more, even if it was a dichotomy, that seems less pressing than a diseases that are killing in their prime or even before they had a chance of having a good go.

It's an epidemic right? It is about the speed of spread, not number of victims.

You could replace iOS with Android, altough it is even more broken though. Just in worse ways. Hello arbitary dev account bans with no human to answer. Byebye privacy.

On the contrary, Apple’s business model seems more and more to be ”privacy you can buy”.

I agree. But that model makes sense, given that they (at least based on their press) don't receive (any? as much?) money from selling user data.

I'm kind of surprised that such an option exists at all in the marketplace, given the amount of cash Google and FB suck in. At least consumers have some choice.

I wonder when they will launch a search engine then. Because that's where most (or at least a big part) of my sensitive data goes.

The default search engine on Safari was switched to DuckDuckGo, for this reason, wasn't it?

If you let someone else manage the hosts your computer resolves, you are trusting that someone as much as your ISP. A man in the middle.

Google has become so evil, their whitewash attempts are a sad joke.

Is Uber yet selling the information on who took a ride, when, from where and to where? I expect them to monetize that. Privacy? Is that something edible?