[Joeboy]

I don't know about Apple or MS, but building TextSecure from source and installing it on an android phone is about as easy as you could reasonably expect it to be. It seems churlish to complain that there are also easier ways to install it.

Edit: although, of course you have to trust Github or whoever if you install from source.

[Nutomic]

They are actively opposing their apps to be published on F-Droid. Instead, they prefer on proprietary services for various (imo bad) reasons>

https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/redphone-and-textsecure/#po...

[pakled_engineer]

Also have to trust Google closed binary framework app isn't spying, or can't be remotely exploited to start spying, as it's a hard dependency for Textsecure/Redphone