A new version of Telegram is now available, and while we don’t know if it’s the “revolutionary” update that Pavel Durvol, CEO of Telegram, referred to in his complaint against Apple’s monopolistic stance, the truth is… The truth is, it doesn’t seem like it.

In other words: Apple’s attitude is as unpresentable as ever, but if said revolutionary update is the one that finally hit the App Store today, shut up and let’s go. And it is that Telegram, perhaps, has abused us to receive messages that are generally powerful and above all useful, but this download is quite modest to improve interest and those that bring are limited to paying users.

Namely, the new version of Telegram, both for the desktop and the mobile app, focuses a lot on adding lots of new animated emoticonsvery cool everyone redo the panel stickers on the iOS web style to introduce interactive custom emoticons, etc. All these curious novelties, but little depth: Telegram does not exactly need such things.

On the contrary, the most interesting novelty of this update is the ability to choose who can send or forward voice messages, the ability to add exceptions for individual users or groups of users… but it is only available for Telegram Premium users. And unfortunately, this is the trend of the last two updates of the application.

In other words, we knew that Telegram Premium users would have their benefits, of course mainly in doubling the possibilities of regular accounts. We knew that a service like Telegram couldn’t be kept off the air indefinitely, much less when it’s proclaiming from the rooftops that you have all the free space you want in the cloud and for free.

So it was to be expected that those who paid would have a return worth it. from here to cover privacy options As is often the case, there is a stretch that took Telegram very little to overcome, and while it’s a minor possibility, it should be noted that this could be the start of an unexpected shift. Although I could be wrong.

To top it all off, the last thing new in this version of Telegram is… the ability to provide “a prepaid premium subscription to any user from their profile page”, choose “for 3, 6 or 12 months, at a reduced price” . Me too, but this premium promotion sounds compelling. Also. We’ll have to see how things go.

In the meantime, if you’re a user of the app, don’t forget that you can follow everything we publish from the MC channel on Telegram.