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The primary limitation here is inability to receive responses back from users. From a business revenue generation angle, that's probably not enough of a feature
by imranhou 5y ago
The primary limitation here is inability to receive responses back from users. From a business revenue generation angle, that's probably not enough of a feature set to monetize for the carriers.
- woodruffw 5y agoI'm not sure whether it's universally supported, but AT&T at the least actually does support responses. I can text any email address from iMessage and receive an email via SMTP from 1234567890@mms.att.net, and responding to that email also delivers correctly (and is even threaded). Edit: One funny thing is that iMessage will detect gateway traffic from/to email addresses that are tied to iMessage accounts, and put those into a "blue bubble" chat instead of the normal SMS/MMS "green bubble" chat.
- dqv 5y agoYou can reply to these messages and it goes back to the email that sent them. At least on my carrier.
- alfredosequeida 5y agoI can also verify that replies work (using T-mobile).
- nulbyte 5y agoNot only can you reply, but you can compose new messages using an email address as a recipient.