3 ms·
Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS already?
- felipe 18y agoThat's a big lesson for small-scale mobile-based start-ups: Whatever you do in this space, you must start with a sustainable business model. In my previous start-up we ignored that fact, and we failed. Unfortunately, the mobile space is not as "free" as the Internet. Especially here in the US, we basically have an oligopoly, so don't think you can just build something and "put it out there"... Everything you do will have a cost, and someone will have to eat that -- Either you or your customer.
- shimi 18y agoCarriers are making heaps of cash from SMS, no way its going to die soon
- bprater 18y agoYou're right, they don't want that cash cow leaving anytime soon. But when iPhone gets their act together and allow for background applications, it will be a death knell. Even now, some of my friends will "ping" me with SMS and then we will switch over to GTalk to save our monthly messages, especially if we plan on having an extended convo.
- shimi 18y agoCarriers will do everything they can to get your money have a read: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/13/google-ally-t-mobile-looks-poised-to-compete-with-apples-app-store/ http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/13/google-ally-t-mobile-looks... They will block apps in a heart beat that will deliver a cheaper way to pass massages. Please remember that you (bparter) are the minority when talking about SMS
- stcredzero 18y agoMaybe this is why Yahoo Messenger is not on the iPhone? A full iPhone implementation of YMessenger with the push notification would have the exact same functionality as SMS and more. You don't even need background processes for this!
- cypress-hill 18y agosms is the single most popular messaging system in the world. more sms messages are sent per day than emails. its not going anywhere.