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This "I don't want another app" thing is senseless to me. Why? What does it hurt having more than one communication channel? In my experience people that say th
by betwixthewires 4y ago
This "I don't want another app" thing is senseless to me. Why? What does it hurt having more than one communication channel? In my experience people that say this generally have no space on their phone, usually because of an unfettered willingness to install the taco bell app and the Starbucks app and whatever else.
Their underlying reasoning is correct. SMS sucks, really really bad. They're a secure communications channel. People see signal and think they're secure. Signal has no business supporting SMS. The on boarding has reached critical mass, the neyworke effect is here. If you're smart you'll abandon SMS altogether forever and just tell people to reach you some other way, not ditch the actual, over the internet encrypted channel.
- dugite-code 4y ago> This "I don't want another app" thing is senseless to me. Why? My elderly mother pushes one button to text me and everyone else anything else is a show stopper, End of story.
- inamorty 4y agoMy elderly mother uses Whatsapp, signal and element. They're all the same.
- caf 4y agoMaybe in the circles you move, saying "Sorry, I don't SMS, you'll have to download this other app to message me" would fly, but I for one have to interact with a lot of people for which it would not.
- betwixthewires 4y agoI have SMS, right, you kind of have to have a phone number, but to me it's legacy support, I pay for the mobile data. I'll do SMS as a sort of fallback. The people you want to send you SMS like companies that need your phone number can't do SMS, and the ones you'd rather message you elsewhere sometimes insist on SMS. It's annoying.