Reminds me of this blog post where someone was trying to reverse-engineer a hand-rolled encryption protocol in a crossword app by colorizing the output and looking for patterns.

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/acre.html

That's what Signal does on my iPhone, I thought it was the default?

So many upvotes. And not even any accompanying submission text. I love it.

Makes me wonder then why they can't afford a team of Android developers to make the Android version.

Because they don’t want to?

It’s not just about money. It’s complexity, company size, management, etc.. Loss of focus by having to build a new app from ground up. Features and improvements take longer as they have to be done twice. Parity problems. Support debt. Maintaining multiple versions of the same app isn’t just “hire more”.

As you agreed with, they are successful. Maybe they’re happy with that.

It’s not that they can’t afford it, it’s that Android users aren’t worth the investment.

I'm sure they can afford that, but would that end up paying for itself? Would that end up bringing in enough new paying users to justify spending all that money on a team of Android engineers?

They probably haven't done it because it doesn't make sense for them financially.

I'm guessing it's a lot more expensive to install and maintain card readers than to essentially just have signs prompting people to use their phone.

Glad I wasn't the only one. Love how he goes on to say how he's aware that people are unfamiliar with all those names he just dropped.

Was it this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXqVV8_GORE

He finds a solution involving copying files across from an older version of xcode

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I'm on my 8th year of using my 2016 SE. Have replaced the battery and screen a few times over the years. A fair few of the apps I used stopped supporting iOS 15 so I've got old versions of those apps installed, but WhatsApp, Signal and my banking app still actively support iOS 15 so it works well enough for me, for now.

I have an iPhone 13 mini sitting in a drawer for when I need to switch.

In my experience that's not true at all, but I think a lot of people have that perception, which is sad.