Absolutely not the case. I've got 2 at the moment, right now. Had 4 running when I had 4 computers I was using.
>Can't move from iOS to Android (and vice versa) without losing your chat history because backups aren't compatible.
Yeah, this is a real pain which I wish they had solved years ago. For personal reasons my daughter has her old android phone with our Signal messages on it, as it's the only way she can keep them as far as we're aware at the moment. It was a pain when I moved from Android to iOS for this reason.
>Can't automatically save pictures to Picture Roll, Google Drive, Dropbox for integration with your other pictures.
I would think this is by design. Signal is designed to be private.
>why can't they try to at least match WhatsApp in core functionality
I would imagine 'funding' and 'privacy' cover a lot of it.
- Can't move from iOS to Android (and vice versa) without losing your chat history because backups aren't compatible.
- Can't send media with their creation timestamps. All photos shared with family/friends via Signal can't be used to build a photo album without manually sorting pictures.
- Can't automatically save pictures to Picture Roll, Google Drive, Dropbox for integration with your other pictures.
- Only one desktop/computer can be linked to Signal desktop.
- Many useful chat widgets such as polls or real-time location are missing.
- No transcription of audio messages (WhatsApp only has a few languages) and lot of issues with audio messages such as iOS users not being able to play audio messages created on Android but not with Signal.
I don't think they should strive to reach feature parity with Telegram or asian messengers, but why can't they try to at least match WhatsApp in core functionality?
I get the privacy focus, but most of us are not dissidents in foreign countries or journalists who could be killed over their picture metadata. Give us a mode for normal users.
I regret moving my family over to Signal because before I used to have all their pictures as part of my photo stream. Since switching I need to manually save pictures but they don't have the correct timestamps then.