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Tying the username to the phone number was brilliant, and I don't know why others hadn't succeeded before with that approach, or why don't others copy it. It i
by GFischer 11y ago
Tying the username to the phone number was brilliant, and I don't know why others hadn't succeeded before with that approach, or why don't others copy it.
It is quite annoying when you want to switch phone numbers though (not a common use case, but at least in my country if you want to switch providers you have to switch phone numbers).
- harryf 11y agoWhat's probably slowed adoption of that approach is too much "web thinking" in the app design process and too much "But what does Google / Facebook / Twitter do?" In fact Twitter provides SMS based signup as a free service for app developers as part of Fabric - https://get.digits.com/ https://get.digits.com/