I wonder if it's really lost users, or conversations. The article only cites download numbers declining in the various app stores.
Lots of people seem to have downloaded Signal or Telegram, but how many deleted WhatsApp? I don't plan on deleting it and I'm going to approve the new T&C or whatever it is, but I'm quite happy to migrate to Signal for my contacts who use both.
Presumably losing x% of conversations is just as bad as losing x% of monthly users for Facebook, so maybe this is moot, but it's still lazy journalism.
Call it toc insensitivity, or habit of last 20 years, but as soon as I saw that new TOC when I opened whatsapp about 20 days ago, I didn't even look at the button text, just clicked it as soon I read app.. of Approve. Wonders of auto pilot brain.
Lots of people seem to have downloaded Signal or Telegram, but how many deleted WhatsApp? I don't plan on deleting it and I'm going to approve the new T&C or whatever it is, but I'm quite happy to migrate to Signal for my contacts who use both.
Presumably losing x% of conversations is just as bad as losing x% of monthly users for Facebook, so maybe this is moot, but it's still lazy journalism.