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It's too much work to keep track of what phones your friends have. I have 200+ people on my contact list, and I think maybe only 4-5 of them don't use smartphon
by Shenglong 15y ago
It's too much work to keep track of what phones your friends have. I have 200+ people on my contact list, and I think maybe only 4-5 of them don't use smartphones. It may take off if Apple makes their messenger available for all systems, and people actually download it.
You also need to remember, that a large amount of texters are students. Many of my friends send over 4000 texts a month, while I'm running slightly under 2000. On a student plan, unlimited texting in Canada is just bundled into the voice+data package. I haven't been to the states for a while, so I'm not quite sure how they're doing it.
Even if texting does die, it'll die slowly. It's just too much of a hassle to be a hardcore first-adopter for these changes, even if it is cheaper.
- teilo 15y agoiMessage automatically uses SMS for all devices not registered in iCloud. What it will do is eliminate all messaging charges between newer iPhones. This is a significant percentage. Competition will take care of the rest.
- Shenglong 15y agoI wasn't aware. That's beautiful. No complaints here I suppose :)
- WrkInProgress 15y agoThat is a great feature (automatically choosing the protocol). I believe Windows Phone's latest update (Mango) will also use something like this but it will automatically jump between Windows Live Messenge, SMS, and Facebook Chat. WebOS was the first to have just a "Messages" app (I believe it worked with SMS, AIM, ICQ and GChat/GTalk) that allowed you to have a conversation between a person over different protocols/services, but it was not automatic. Not sure if this has been changed for WebOS 3.0