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I find this kind of amusing. I suspect the adoption of this varies by area/country based on how, ahem, well, poorly basic SMS is implemented and priced in that
by heavenlyhash 8y ago
I find this kind of amusing. I suspect the adoption of this varies by area/country based on how, ahem, well, poorly basic SMS is implemented and priced in that area.
For example I notice that when in Germany, Whatsapp adoption is quite high, because SMS rates are absolutely ridiculous. Other countries... less so.
I still get SMS (and email, but SMS frankly still pushes more reliably than data based systems) notifications for my airlines, and that also certainly qualifies as Not An Extra App :)
- nradov 8y agoSMS will always be more reliable than data service because SMS runs over the GSM signalling side channel.
- Rjevski 8y agoWhich is irrelevant when GSM is going away and additionally Wi-Fi being more and more common.
- heavenlyhash 8y agoSure. Aaaand last airport I flew through had a wifi signup which required your phone number. To send you an SMS. With a code for the wifi. So uh... I'll continue to take my SMS notifications (and emails, which also have nice well-known offline sync properties...) over any more modern appy things, please and thank you.