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Why would you or any customer want to receive SMS instead of email when most/all phones, even brick phones now a days, have internet? SMS, to me, feels like a w
by somenameforme 2y ago
Why would you or any customer want to receive SMS instead of email when most/all phones, even brick phones now a days, have internet? SMS, to me, feels like a way less secure, less functional, less portable, and more expensive email. It made sense back before basically every plan had a high/no limit internet plan, but now..?
The only real positive, so far as I can see, is the 'instantaneous' send/receive, but again thanks to big plans now a days your email checking every 5 seconds or whatever is basically free, making that benefit more of a technicality than reality.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago> Why would you or any customer want to receive SMS instead of email Because doing me doing tech support over SMS often flows much better than email. That's one reason but there are a lot.
- witrak 2y agoBecause to check email your active participation is needed so you must start an application while to accept texting no such action is needed. Thus for short information (read-and-forget) short messaging (SMS or RCS) is more convenient. Of course, you could use a specialized application to check your email account and filter those needing immediate notification, but if such a service is already available what is the reason to generate additional much bigger traffic?
- somenameforme 2y agoI don't understand where you're coming from here. Both Android and iPhone automatically and passively check emails simulating real time connectivity akin to a messenger. What you said does apply to desktop, but comparing SMS to desktop email is rather odd to say the least.
- dqv 2y ago> SMS, to me, feels like a way less secure, less functional, less portable, and more expensive email. You can't port email addresses unless you own the domain. For the majority of people SMS is the more portable option because they can freely port their phone number to a different carrier.
- esrauch 2y agoEveryone just uses Gmail/Hotmail/iCloud/Proton which just don't have the port problem as carriers because you don't have any reason to port since there's no fees and no physical network, you can just accrue more and use mail forwarding with no problem.
- areyourllySorry 2y agothat's another cost, have fun getting your emails dropped by microsoft because they don't like your ip addresses unless you pay someone else to send for you
- gruez 2y ago"portability" probably refers to being able to access messages from multiple devices, which can be easily done on email but not text messages. People port their phone numbers to get a better plan, but that's rarely done for email. At best there's a handful of privacy conscious people switching gmail for protonmail or whatever.
- trentlott 2y agoI can always access my email if I have a computer and internet. I cannot access my SMS without my phone. Which, with the sudden battery swelling...
- emeril 2y agoI've had my laptops battery swell more than any phone
- devilbunny 2y agoFWIW, this is why I always travel with a spare phone, especially if out of the country.
- rOOb85 2y agoiOS doesn’t support email encryption. My provider(mailbox.org) offers an option to automatically encrypt all incoming email.
- nunez 2y agoSMS is lightweight and crazy reliable. You can count on getting text messages when Internet is unavailable.