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Really stupid article. Facebook Chat on the iPhone will kill SMS? What's the iPhone global penetration rate? 1%? So I'll be able to chat with 1% of my fri

by poutine 18y ago

Really stupid article. Facebook Chat on the iPhone will kill SMS? What's the iPhone global penetration rate? 1%? So I'll be able to chat with 1% of my friends assuming they all arrange to run the iPhone Facebook app at the same time as me? Yeah, sounds like a real replacement for SMS. Gah, silly.

flavio87 18y ago
Don't forget you can also send messages to the regular inbox, so no need to be running the app at the same time, which would, as you said correctly not exactly a way to replace SMS. As to the penetration rate, the people that I communicate 95% of the time are all on facebook. Maybe I need to add some older people to my social circle :D
volida 18y ago
actually it's 0.13%
- lucasvo 18y ago
  And how many of your friends have an iPhone? I believe it's more than 0.13%. Facebook Messenger indeed has the potential to kill SMS. And the iPhone won't be the only platform facebook will support. Now with an iPhone that has an incredible UI and easily available thirdparty apps I'm sure motorola, nokia and samsung can't just continue to ship their rather limited OS.
  - volida 18y ago
    you are being very optimistic. You forget that even if iPhone sells 10 million iPhones in a global market it will be only the 0.3% of the whole phone market. Actually I don't know anyone who owns an iPhone. Like you said other companies will make similar UIs before iPhone dominates. I am sure SMS wont die at least in the next 5 or 10 years. SMS is a huge market/profit for telecom companies and a standard one and I am certain they wont let it die before they promote their are own free chat. What's wrong with MSN and the user base is 10 times larger? It's enough to replace SMS but it never did. I dont see anytime soon all these teens getting used to the iPhone virtual keyboard. They type with eyes closed in their classrooms, while driving the car with one hand...
    - lucasvo 18y ago
      What is interesting about the iPhone is, that you normally get it with an unlimited data plan. As soon as 3g is included in every plan, sms will loose it's importance. but I doubt that it will be replaced. The keyboard issue kept me from buying one. Though at my school in Switzerland about 1% of the students already have one, even though until yesterday you couldn't get them.

by poutine 18y ago

flavio87 18y ago

Don't forget you can also send messages to the regular inbox, so no need to be running the app at the same time, which would, as you said correctly not exactly a way to replace SMS. As to the penetration rate, the people that I communicate 95% of the time are all on facebook. Maybe I need to add some older people to my social circle :D

volida 18y ago

actually it's 0.13%

lucasvo 18y ago
And how many of your friends have an iPhone? I believe it's more than 0.13%. Facebook Messenger indeed has the potential to kill SMS. And the iPhone won't be the only platform facebook will support. Now with an iPhone that has an incredible UI and easily available thirdparty apps I'm sure motorola, nokia and samsung can't just continue to ship their rather limited OS.
- volida 18y ago
  you are being very optimistic. You forget that even if iPhone sells 10 million iPhones in a global market it will be only the 0.3% of the whole phone market. Actually I don't know anyone who owns an iPhone. Like you said other companies will make similar UIs before iPhone dominates. I am sure SMS wont die at least in the next 5 or 10 years. SMS is a huge market/profit for telecom companies and a standard one and I am certain they wont let it die before they promote their are own free chat. What's wrong with MSN and the user base is 10 times larger? It's enough to replace SMS but it never did. I dont see anytime soon all these teens getting used to the iPhone virtual keyboard. They type with eyes closed in their classrooms, while driving the car with one hand...
  - lucasvo 18y ago
    What is interesting about the iPhone is, that you normally get it with an unlimited data plan. As soon as 3g is included in every plan, sms will loose it's importance. but I doubt that it will be replaced. The keyboard issue kept me from buying one. Though at my school in Switzerland about 1% of the students already have one, even though until yesterday you couldn't get them.