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Comment by jhugo

3 years ago

The death of SMS is hardly specific to central Europe and the US. It's already thoroughly dead in most of Asia for person-to-person communication, replaced by WhatsApp/WeChat/LINE/Telegram/etc depending on country.

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rjzzleep  3 years ago

That's incorrect. Dead for person-to-person communication in east Asia yes, but still EXTREMELY common for everything else.

"It doesn't matter for the use cases I don't care about" - what a selfish look at the world.

Besides paying for parking by SMS and other services in Europe there's also M-Pesa and similar services[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

  • jhugo  3 years ago

    > That's incorrect.

    Read before replying. I literally said "for person-to-person communication".

    • rjzzleep  3 years ago

      I was specifically referencing YOUR language. You can't on the one hand proclaim death of a protocol and in the next sentence limit it to a specific use case.

      > The death of SMS is hardly specific to central Europe and the US.

      I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but since you're specifically attacking my wording I have to correct you. This statement would only be correct if it was: "The death of SMS for person-to-person communication is hardly specific to central Europe and the US."

      So yes, your statement is incorrect. It's not dead, far from. It might get there eventually, but definitely not yet.

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