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Carriers are making heaps of cash from SMS, no way its going to die soon

• bprater 18y ago
  You'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 ago
    Carriers 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 ago
      Maybe 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!