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> And he’s right, Americans didn’t start texting until the iPhone made it cheap The T-Mobile Sidekick might want to argue with that point. Though not focused o
by com2kid 9y ago
> And he’s right, Americans didn’t start texting until the iPhone made it cheap
The T-Mobile Sidekick might want to argue with that point. Though not focused on pure SMS, mobile messaging was most certainly popular.
(And arguments about the Sidekick not being real SMS will run into arguments that with iPhone users tend towards iMessage, which is not pure SMS!)
- Lewton 9y agoThe argument wasn’t meant to be that texting didn’t exist until the iPhone It’s the disparity between how popular texting was in Europe compared to the US before the iPhone became popular. Texting didn’t permeate American culture the same way it did in the EU in the late nineties/early noughts