re: SMS Is Plenty Instant"The people I want to contact usually carry their cellphones with them, so if I need to get hold of them SMS is usually the quickest way."
The target market for IM-on-phones is teenagers. The secondary market is for people who sit in front of 42 IM chat sessions at once when they should be working.
The IM-vs-SMS debate, I still believe (I wrote about this five years back), stems from the difference between an always-on Internet as found in the US and a seldom-on Internet as found in the rest of the world. IM is connected; SMS is disconnected. I happen to prefer SMS, but I (and you, and most of Europe!) seem to be in the minority.
Besides. I bet IM sessions use up a lot more data and raise the ARPU.
re: SMS Is Plenty InstantWhat ever happened to them? Saw few postings connecting them with Google and then the new CEO announcement, but nothing since.
re: SMS Is Plenty InstantWell, they made a CEO change, correct? But no mentio n of such. Just wondering if the Google hype(then cooling) plus the CEO change announcement was an ominous sign. Tied in with SF MUNI deployment but not a peep out of them in months.
The target market for IM-on-phones is teenagers. The secondary market is for people who sit in front of 42 IM chat sessions at once when they should be working.
The IM-vs-SMS debate, I still believe (I wrote about this five years back), stems from the difference between an always-on Internet as found in the US and a seldom-on Internet as found in the rest of the world. IM is connected; SMS is disconnected. I happen to prefer SMS, but I (and you, and most of Europe!) seem to be in the minority.
Besides. I bet IM sessions use up a lot more data and raise the ARPU.