Comment by 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]
> That's incorrect.
Read before replying. I literally said "for person-to-person communication".
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.
Fair enough, I guess, although I intended for "death" to refer to a process which is ongoing (contrast with "already dead" in the following sentence). It's not an uncommon usage, and Wiktionary seems to document it along with several other dictionaries.