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Everyone has SMS
by arkanciscan 6y ago
Everyone has SMS
- yoz-y 6y agoSMS doesn’t do groups or images. Maybe RCS will one day work?
- zamalek 6y agoMMS does, and does so transparently across platforms (iOS, Android). You must have a very old phone if it does not work for you.
- yoz-y 6y agoBack when it made sense to send MMS messages (i.e. when everybody haven’t had something like WhatsApp) they were ridiculously expensive while sms was free on most plans. Nowadays it’s different but for example on my plan, sending MMS while on roaming is not plain data depending on the destination.
- arkanciscan 6y agoThe criteria was that everyone needs to have access to the messaging platform. SMS checks that box. SMS does not do literally everything, but that's not the most important quality of a messaging platform.
- Zak 6y agoSMS isn't a great option if you're communicating with people in multiple countries, and often not if you're traveling internationally yourself. Signal might be, if only we could get everybody to use it.