Will Signal ever replace WhatsApp ? No matter how much privacy or open source laurels it has .. and enenglised by likes of Jack .. The point is , if a problem is already solved .. why waste time on that when there are millions of other problems to be solved ?
Hundreds of companies tried to replace Google by copying Google .. no one succeeded .. chatGPT rattled it in a matter of months .. why ..because chatGPT didn't copy .. it solved a new problem ..
They need to build a better app if they want to replace what's app.
Now that we are in the world of AI agents - why would we build a better Signal ? .. wouldn't I ask my AI agent to send a message to you or post it on some social ( or socials of my choice) ?
If that is true , user doesn't care if my message is being sent by signal or whatsapp or OxChat .. . This is a huge opportunity for nostr cuz ID is local .. agent doesn't need KYC with Meta ! .. just a LOUD Thinker ..
I mean we still need a pipe ( client) and a protocol .. but from user standpoint , it is simply a new interface ..
And frankly .. I can do without the global feed .. let AI figure out what is most suitable for me and give me notes to read to read in a "discover" tab - just like Perplexity is doing with news .. I know it is still a copy ..but a different take on social paradigm .. the current interface was discovered by Twitter almost 20 years back !
