Meta’s ‘WhatsApp’ outdoor ads in New York claim to be ‘safer than iMessage’ – CNET

It’s like saying, “What you can do, we can do better.”Competition between Meta and Appleis also displayed in an outdoor advertisement in a building near Times Square, the “crossroads of the world” in New York. The target this time is Apple’s messaging service iMessage.

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Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new outdoor ad to compete with Apple on October 17 above Pennsylvania Station, just south of Times Square and near Broadway. announced that it was released. He claims that Meta’s “WhatsApp” is more reliable than iMessage.

Zuckerberg said that the Meta-operated“Instagram”“WhatsApp is much more private and secure than iMessage. End-to-end encryption works on both iPhone and Android, and protects group chats,” he wrote.Plus iMessage does notDisappearing messageIt also emphasizes functions such as

A billboard reads, “Protect your private messages across devices.” On top of that, a blue bubble (messages from iPhone users) and a green one (messages from Android users) showing iMessage on-screen interactions are arranged side by side to give a teasing look.

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