A rare positive move by a consumer electronics company is always nice to see. Hope this is normalized. Perhaps I should consider their products for my next purchase.
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In a surprisingly user-friendly move
Article nailed it.
What part of this is “open source”? I think that would require some source code, which we’re not seeing. Local APIs are great for sure, but hardly the same thing 
According to the article they’re open sourcing the API documentation lol
Everyone appears to be using the term liberally akin to how some think WhatsApp is private just because it technically offers E2EE.
Esoteric misunderstandings.
It would become easy for gadgetbridge to integrate
Opened up an issue there
I understand that private is a bit of a loaded descriptor as you have used it, but it would be unfair to say WhatsApp only offers E2EE (implying it is optional). It is E2EE by default which makes it content private-by-design from WhatsApp themselves.
When meta data can and does give you enough info about you and your contacts, the value of the encrypted message lessens and is there fair to think of it as not a private option only because E2EE is on by default.