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You can't use WhatsApp with people who don't have WhatsApp. Which is the entire point of having a Standard Messaging Service. But SMS is very basic and limited
by frosted-flakes 7y ago
You can't use WhatsApp with people who don't have WhatsApp. Which is the entire point of having a Standard Messaging Service. But SMS is very basic and limited in functionality, which is where RCS comes in.
I still use SMS almost exclusively for the simple reason that it is standard—except for group messages, for which I use Signal.
- ubercow13 7y agoDespite being a standard, you can’t really use SMS with people outside your country because it is astronomically expensive
- reaperducer 7y agoDepends on your country and your plan. I can only speak as an American, but sending an SMS to Europe costs 20¢ on my plan. Hardly astronomical, especially considering that when SMS was new, it cost 50¢-$1.00 per message.
- why-oh-why 7y agoYou don’t think 20¢ is astronomical? A person does not simply send one message. A teenager will send a hundred micro messages as day as short as “lol” I wouldn’t dream of communicating the same way if messages weren’t “free” (i.e. part of your internet fee) I say this as someone with “most of my friends” living in other countries at any given time.
- esotericn 7y agoIn the UK SMS was about 5p prepaid. Even that was expensive. It's ~100 bytes.
- ubercow13 7y agoI dread to think what my monthly bill would be if all messages I sent using every internet connected chat service cost 20 cents. I might have sent 100 short messages just to my mother this month. That would be $20 just for talking to one person. Last time I had a UK phone contract I was paying £13 for unlimited data. Yes, 20 cents is astronomical.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 7y agoSide note, The S in SMS stands for Short, not Standard.