Given the new privacy policies implemented by WhatsApp, A lot of users are looking for a new messaging app that is more friendly with their data. One of them, thanks to the recommendation de Elon Musk, is Signal, which has grown strongly in number. But its CEO, Brian Acton, does not believe that it replaces the Facebook service.
Anton was a co-founder of WhatsApp And he knows about messaging: in 2014, he sold it with Jan Kou to Facebook for $ 22 billion.
Now, at the command of Signal, does not consider that your application replaces WhatsApp in this new crisis of the application since both have “Different purposes”.
“I have no desire to do all the things WhatsApp does,” Acton told TechCrunch, although it did not specify which functions it would not replicate.
Said I expected people to trust Signal to talk to close family and friends while continuing to talk to other people on WhatsApp.
“My wish is to give people a choice and it is not strictly a winner-takes-all scenario,” he said.
Signal, first created in 2014, has focused on privacy and has promised never to sell user data or display ads in the app. Anton joined the board of directors investing $ 50 million of his own money.
According to the mobile information firm App Annie, Signal had around 20 million monthly active users globally at the end of December 2020. According to Sensor Tower, The app was downloaded more than 7.5 million times between January 6 and January 10.
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