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I think this will only affect US users, because nobody uses SMS outside the US. And switching between apps is the expected thing to do when trying to push peopl
by jacooper 4y ago
I think this will only affect US users, because nobody uses SMS outside the US.
And switching between apps is the expected thing to do when trying to push people to another platform,
I have telegram, signal, whatsapp and Element on my phone, this is why the new digital markets act is going to be revolutionary, especially with bridge friendly platforms like matrix.org.
- makeitdouble 4y agoI hear this a lot but this is way too caricatural. For one, commercial services will go through SMS to contact you. Delivery people asking if my mailbox can fit parcels won’t be through Whatsapp or Messenger. Then you’ll also want to compartmentalize and limit how some people can reach you. That means if you’re already giving them your phone number, you don’t want them on the other messaging services as well. Life is complicated, and there will be endless use cases for the baseline, default messaging platform.
- frankjr 4y ago> I think this will only affect US users, because nobody uses SMS outside the US This is not true at all, at least for Czechia. The number is going down but it's still in billions (for a country with population of ~10.5M). Quoting from the official annual report: > In the number of SMS messages sent from mobile networks in 2018, CTU estimates - in the context of the increasing popularity of OTT messengers (e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Viber, etc.) - a slight decrease relative to 2017, approximately by 2% to 8.21 billion SMS messages. https://www.ctu.eu/sites/default/files/obsah/stranky/284221/soubory/vz-2018en-komplet-sig.pdf https://www.ctu.eu/sites/default/files/obsah/stranky/284221/...
- plsbenice34 4y agoI have never been to the US but lived in multiple countries and they all used SMS. May I ask where you live that doesnt use SMS?