If I was to offer you a data plan that cost the low, low price of $1.6 million per Gigabyte, would you take me up on it?
No?
How about if I offered you the same service, but this time it only costs 22 cents per 160 Bytes?
As you have no doubt figured out, it is the same pricing, and this is what we are being charged for SMS.
SMS is great, but it costs too much. I think with Twitter and mobile push technology, we can finally abandon SMS. A twitter client on your smartphone with push enabled is a complete replacement for SMS, and has the exact same "feel" as SMS on your phone too.
If you already have a data connection on your phone, and your family/friends have (or can get) a twitter account, there is no downside to this system.
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Who the hell pays per SMS anymore. Get an unlimited plan and deal with it. Christ.
It's not just a cost thing either. By using Twitter instead of SMS, all of your messages are backed up "in the cloud", and are searchable and accessible from anywhere at any time.
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