[rch]

This post seems say that they'd rather avoid the difficult programming challenges of working with the varied devices and protocols people use for communication generally, and just compete with other walled garden apps instead. I wish them luck, but it's a different trajectory than they were on a year or two ago.

[Vinnl]

It's not a "difficult programming challenge" if you don't even get access to the APIs for the new protocol, I don't think...

But there's also certainly something to be said for deciding where to spend your time. Sure, getting regular SMS right on many different devices might be a difficult programming challenge, but if that means you can't spend time on making sure your service scales, or that people are able to hide their phone number, or... Then that's not laziness, that's making a hard choice.

[blitzar]

> I wish them luck, but it's a different trajectory than they were on a year or two ago.

MobileCoin which is Signals self printed crypto (think what FTT was to FTX) was released: December 6, 2020

Their trajectory a year or two ago is no different

[CameronNemo]

How? They've always been keen on the centralization aspect.