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When they stopped the SMS service in the UK I cared for all of the five minutes until I got my iPhone. Obviously in the short term this is a major loss of funct
by ionfish 18y ago
When they stopped the SMS service in the UK I cared for all of the five minutes until I got my iPhone. Obviously in the short term this is a major loss of functionality for a lot of people, but give it a couple of years and, if we're all still using Twitter, no one will care too much about SMS integration, because the real web will be everywhere.
- sielskr 18y agoAt what price though? The cheapest plan authorized by Apple that works with an iPhone in the U.S. costs $70 a month.
- s3graham 18y agoUnfortunately, data plans are brutally priced here too (in Canada) so that's not yet a great alternative. I still pretend to hope for WiMAX (or something), but chances are slim-to-nil given the setup here.
- trezor 18y agoI just signed up for twitter. This was my experience: 1. Horrible unicode-failure on importing contacts from gmail. Yes all those fancy non-ASCII characters are actually being used around the world, even for names. 2. Only person I "know" on twitter is Zach Parson from Something Awful, and that was from an automated email. 3. I try to import contacts from my real email, my google hosted mailing account, which afaik uses the exact same API and URLs, apart from the email not ending in @gmail.com. Not stopped on input validation, but something breaks horribly on the server backend. 4. Trying to find other ways to look up people and groups, I find nada. It's either from my email account, a direct url or nothing. So I have one "contact" on a broken service which provides me no viable means to find any more. I realize this is very much depending on location, who you know and blah blah, but I don't see this killing SMS any time soon. The idea is good, but the implementation is simply too broken, too lacking or both.