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This is the best summary I could come up with:
WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video-calling experience on its platform — taking on traditional video conferencing apps, including Microsoft Meet, Google Meet, Zoom, and Apple’s FaceTime.
The new feature, announced this morning by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg through a Facebook post and on his Instagram channel, will allow you to share your documents, photos, and even your shopping cart with contacts available on video calls.
This is similar to how screen sharing works on typical video-conferencing platforms like Google Meet and Zoom.
WhatsApp told TechCrunch that the screen-sharing feature has started rolling out on Android, iOS, and Windows Desktop in a phased manner.
Screen sharing has been a crucial feature of video-conferencing apps for a while now, including those aimed at consumers.
In 2021, for example, Apple enhanced its FaceTime service with SharePlay, which enabled iOS users to share their screens natively.
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Telegram had this for at least 3 years now.
Telegram has every feature earlier than whatsapp
Except E2EE by default
yeah there’s a tradeoff. it’s either server-encrypted with your “cloud password” or e2e encrypted in which case you lose chat sync.
like you’re supposed to use non-e2e chats for regular conversations, and encrypted ones for anything even remotely sensitiveaudio/video calls are always encrypted.
Or just do it like Matrix or Signal or even WhatsApp which have both E2EE and chat sync
yeah they can do sync but it’s rather janky and requires both devices to be on.
there are some advantages to telegram’s cloud chat system, even though it’s much less secure.They don’t though. Only WhatsApp does. The other ones don’t require both devices to be on.
Also it’s not janky at all (with the exception of WhatsApp)
indeed, that’s true. Whatsapp is years behind Telegram in features.
To be fair, WhatsApp hasn’t had any serious feature development up until the last year or so, so as far as features go, they’re playing catch-up.
Not to be a dick, but Telegram (as much as I love it) has had a terrible Video Chat experience. The overall quality is heavy… And it’s buggy.
I never had any issues with it. I use it on Android and Linux.
That’s… weird… Windows Desktop and Android. The audio quality fluctuates alot.
Compared to the same hardware on Meet, the quality fluctuates a lot on Telegram.
To be fair, it’s been over 4 months since I last used it. Let’s see.
That’s nice and all, but where’s the native iPad app?
Facebook really wants everyone’s lunch. First Snapchat & Twitter, now Teams/Zoom
Nice feature but just seems greedy
I’ll take things to avoid for $1000 Alex.
