He, however, added that he also uses an iPad and iPhone as WhatsApp is building products for both Android and the iOS ecosystem.Ĭathart claims seems rather surprising as Apple don’t target every segment of user base that’s unded the reach of Android. When it asked what device Cathart uses for himself, he mentioned Android because WhatsApp’s userbase is very ‘Android heavy’. Thus people tend to consider Apple’s iMessaging to be a better offering automatically. While people do come across Facebook-owned messaging giant’s privacy labels, they do not necessarily see the labels for iMessage as it already comes preloaded in an iPhone. And in such a scenario, introducing the privacy labels was a shot in the arm for WhatsApp. While WhatsApp has 16 different privacy labels, the Facebook Messenger app reportedly has 65 different privacy labels, including product personalisation, third-part advertising, app functionally, and more.Īddressing the same, Cathart on the podcast said that WhatsApp currently competes with Apple’s iMessage in the U.S, where a bigger percentage of people use the latter. Thus, it is very likely that Apple doesn’t want its users to use WhatsApp because their ultimate goal is not to let people use an Android phone in the first place and experience anything out of the Apple ecosystem.Īfter Apple rolled out its new privacy label feature for its App Store earlier this year, it found both WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger collect a lot more data when compared to the amount other top messaging apps collect.
The messaging experience is superior in iMessage, given if everyone else has an iPhone as well.
Cathart further backed up his assumption by mentioning that most people in the United States are iPhone users.
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