Automattic, the corporate behind WordPress, has bought messaging platform Texts in a guess on the way forward for messaging.
Texts’ motto is “your entire messages in a single inbox.” The platform permits customers to obtain texts from all the varied providers you utilize in a single app. What’s extra, the platform guarantees that your “your messages by no means contact the Texts servers,” makes use of end-to-end encryption, and prices a subscription fairly than profiting out of your knowledge. This provides a layer of safety and privateness that some competing providers can’t match.
In accordance with a publish on Automattic’s website, the corporate has bought Texts, seeing it as the right praise to its different providers:
What number of instances have you ever misplaced observe of a web based dialog, even unintentionally ghosting somebody since you couldn’t bear in mind the place it was occurring? Between iMessage, WhatsApp, Instagram, Sign, Discord, and others, you’ve in all probability discovered your self swiping between apps regularly simply to search out your varied chat threads. Frankly, with “appnesia” on the rise, we’re amazed we’ve any buddies left.
There might not be an official phrase for it, however there may be a solution: Texts.com. All of your messages in a single place—really the one inbox to rule all of them. And in the present day, we’re thrilled to announce that Texts.com is becoming a member of the Automattic household.
Automattic sees messaging as integral to the way forward for the online, and Texts will play a serious position in that future. The WordPress maker has introduced the complete Texts crew onboard to assist guarantee a easy transition and a brilliant future:
In 2005, Automattic began as a publishing platform with WordPress.com; in 2015, the acquisition of WooCommerce added a commerce answer to these publishing instruments; 2019’s addition of Tumblr introduced a brand new suite of promoting instruments to the corporate’s bench. Now, with the acquisition of Texts.com, Automattic strikes right into a fourth market that’s integral to the fashionable net expertise: messaging.
Texts.com founder Kishan Bagaria joins Automattic as the corporate’s new Head of Messaging; the remainder of the totally distributed Texts.com crew is staying on and dealing in earnest to deliver the desktop app to cellular gadgets.
