I disagree and think this is potentially big news. You push us to relax security...we push back by trying to make a play in the secure chat (for everyone not just iPhone users) market which would make your life a lot harder.<p>The market is tough but it would be interesting if Apple would actually enter it. They have enough power to seed the network effect needed with a large enough user base.
I think this entire saga has actually opened up a nice spot to push really hard for the positioning slot of &quot;secure by default&quot;. It&#x27;s been done by a lot of people including Apple before but I think we&#x27;re at a point in time where the media echo might be good enough for a big company to make a true positioning play.
It&#x27;s also a great differentiation against Google&#x2F;Facebook. Apple has voiced the &quot;essentially our competitors are in the we make money off privacy violations business&quot; (in other words) but they might want to hit that harder soon. A bit fickle since you need FB&#x2F;Google in the &quot;security now&quot; alliance but still interesting.<p>I&#x27;m still skeptical about closed source software for secure X but I guess it&#x27;s better than nothing.