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Sometimes, it feels like a surveillance loophole is left for the OS (remember when they had plain text backups on windows). And Apple, Microsoft, and Google would happily turn over data, while Signal always will have plausible deniability.
And you will always need a smartphone OS built by one of the US companies above to start and continue using signal.