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> P.S. Today, we're also introducing Telegram X for Android, a new official app.

What is wrong with the current app? Or was that not official? I find it better than the Facebook Messenger (light or not) and it's definitely much better than the Hangouts app from Google.

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In the linked article in the quote it sounds like it's basically the same concept as Firefox Nightly. New and experimental features that may or may not make it into the other app. It's not meant to replace the old app right now, but it might do so in the future.

As they state that's because of lack of innovations among competitors. So they now compete internally.

They have had two apps (Telegram vs Telegram Desktop) on macOS too for a while. IIRC one is Electron-ish-based and the other is native Cocoa. The first one got features slightly faster but lacked Secret Chats IIRC.

I was actually positively surprised to see the Telegram application is qt based. Not sure which one is it of the two you mention, it's just called "Telegram", and is same on both Windows and OSX.

Explains why it doesn't take a minute to start and doesn't need a gigabyte of memory.

Also, I was very surprised to see that it was really QT based in the sense that there was no glue to an attached Chromium or something, just pure QT in C++.

The effort that went into that thing is amazing. It's fast on my 5 years old Pentium.

Which one should I be using? MacOS specific one feels polished whereas the Telegram for Desktop one doesn't have this strange issue where media sometimes never sends.

I prefer the macOS native client.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16280360

There is ongoing litigation with regards to the ownership of original Telegram client (issued under "Telegram LLC" based in Russia). Telegram X is released under "Telgram Messenger LLP" which is based in London and seemingly wholly owned by Durov. See my root comment for more details

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