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MMS has been exorbitantly, insanely expensive and with extremely high failure rates in much of the world until... ... actually that's still the case in varying
by Groxx 3y ago
MMS has been exorbitantly, insanely expensive and with extremely high failure rates in much of the world until...
... actually that's still the case in varying degrees and locations. And once you've got great market penetration in an area, there's little to no reason to switch unless the competition is noticeably better, which MMS really has no claim to.
- geysersam 3y agoPoint is: why did an open standard for direct messages not win over proprietary solutions?
- Groxx 3y agoThey put in quite a lot of time and money to build it and make it work on a ridiculous array of devices running weird embedded OSes. Open standards hadn't. Or if you're referring to MMS: insane user cost and insane unreliability, standards mean nothing if the implementations are all trash.
- geysersam 3y agoBut why didn't email win over WhatsApp? Doesn't email run on all devices? Not saying it should have, just that I don't really see the difference in functionality.
- Groxx 3y agoEmail definitely did not. When WhatsApp was beginning its rise to domination, it was on tons of feature phones - mostly just calls, texts, and WhatsApp. Email implies a lot more general internet access than was generally supported or understood by people, since it supports arbitrary data and hosts.