Whatsapp is becoming a bit like Apple, measuring their improvements and innovation against only themselves. Telegram has long been a step ahead of Whatsapp with newer features (eg. the great group management features and silent/scheduled messages).
Telegram is Whatsapp’s greatest rival and unless we want to see only one messenger dominating the market we need to (and can) install multiple other messengers on our phones to allow our friends, family and colleagues to use their choice. It’s a real pity there is no enforceable open standard for messengers like we have for SMS and e-mail. I’d still like to see a day where we choose what messenger interface we use but can message anyone else using a different messenger client application. The rapid pace of ongoing innovation around messengers is probably preventing this right now.
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#^WhatsApp beaten as rival reveals why it has such a big advantage
WHATSAPP continues to be the most popular messaging platform on the planet but one of its biggest rivals just made it look massively inferior.