Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Vinnl 1324 days ago
In case you haven't seen the technical motivation for removing SMS yet, see https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...

It doesn't look like it has anything to do with Signal's direction in particular, but rather the changing environment they're in. (Specifically Android/Google making things harder.)
1 comments
n8ta 1324 days ago
"SMS is on the way out". I'll believe it when I see it. Apple isn't going to adopt it because they have no incentive to do so and apple has huge market share. Android hasn't even implemented it yet! We're killing super useful features because 50% (or whatever android market share is) of mobile phones might have something better next year???

Having SMS support as a workaround was huge for signal usability for me. Taking it away burns so much good will.

link
Vinnl 1323 days ago
Well, Signal on iOS never had SMS support in the first place (for the same reason that it's now on its way out on Android).
link