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The "sad thing" is that Whatsapp is 10x-50x more popular in my country and its quite hard to integrate (APIs, bots) compared to Telegram, at least for "small business".

I wonder if Telegram would also be more closed if it was #1...

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Telegram doesn't support bots and most other advanced features for E2EE conversations either. It seems at least as valid (IMO) to speculate that WhatsApp's lack of API/bot support is due to an additional technical hurdle than its dominant market status.

> Telegram doesn't support bots

I think it does:

https://core.telegram.org/bots

You missed it was in the context of E2EE chats.

WhatsApp recently launched hosted API [1] for faster and easier integration for small business

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/01/whatsapp-brings-its-busine...

I think its the same thing [1], but applied anyway with my 1-one company.

[1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/whatsapp-business-api/getti...

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