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by thallada 2319 days ago
You are referring to this backup restore process? https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

It involves a 6 step (with multiple sub-steps) process of navigating the sdcard contents and then transferring some obscure file over USB to a computer and then from that computer to the new phone. I doubt this is something that "the masses" will be able or willing to accomplish.

Also, iOS has about 48% market share in the US, so it's at least half the masses there.

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OMG! SIX STEPS!

Seriously? How often do you change your phone? I mean, sure I know that handing your Iphone to some genius means, you lose all your data and so on but that's not always the case on Android phones.

> Also, iOS has about 48% market share in the US, so it's at least half the masses there.

It is not throughout the world and since this app does not target the US population only, I doubt this group is somehow (more) relevant to the argument. Especially because we talk about a small sub-group of both markets who even cares about backups.