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Or just kill SMS entirely. SMS is old tech from the 1990s. We have better things now, like e-mail over LTE/5G, that work across countries, across devices (whoa!
by dheera 3y ago
Or just kill SMS entirely. SMS is old tech from the 1990s. We have better things now, like e-mail over LTE/5G, that work across countries, across devices (whoa!), across providers, across SIM cards (wow!) allow more than 140 characters (wow wow!), and allows easy-to-remember alphanumeric identifiers for user ids (wow wow wow is this the future!). I hate SMS confirmations, I don't want to use my phone number as a username, and I will most certainly never donate to an organization that is using my donations to pay for stupid SMS texts after e-mail was invented.
- pmlnr 3y ago> We have better things now, like e-mail. Funny how email, being from the 70s, is actually better.
- warner25 3y agoI think we're all on the same page here, but the point is specifically "e-mail over LTE/5G..." (or really HTTPS over TCP/IP/LTE). I see SMS as this weird, independent, kluge of a data channel on the side, which was only cool when phones weren't yet fully interoperable with the Internet. I feel the same way about the entire telephone system at this point.