I think of "users don't care about decentralization" as being similar to "consumers don't care about what's in their food"

15 years ago, users didn't care about privacy. Now it's the main Apple selling point.

I predict the same will happen with decentralization.

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The key thing about Apple is that they, for a time period, heavily positioned themselves as having better privacy offerings than BlackBerry, which was the apparent pinnacle of privacy in consumer mobile at the time.

Users didn’t understand or care for privacy but they cared for a guarantee better than BlackBerry.

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After the Fappening, Apple faced a serious blow to its reputation for privacy. Since then, the company has invested heavily in enhancing its security features, making it the leader in consumer mobile privacy.

I think their recovery would’ve been harder if BlackBerry hadn’t fallen off.

WhatsApp is more popular on Android than iOS. 

People use Telegram because the social graph is based on handles, not phone numbers. Plus it had some encryption before it became standard.

Telegram is just everyone’s Android version of WhatsApp.

Companies buying phones for their employees care about privacy.

Signal has 40M active users, Telegram has 700M monthly active users, so consumers probably care as well.