Comment by pmlnr

2 years ago

> We have better things now, like e-mail.

Funny how email, being from the 70s, is actually better.

I think we're all on the same page here, but the point is specifically "e-mail over LTE/5G..." (or really HTTPS over TCP/IP/LTE). I see SMS as this weird, independent, kluge of a data channel on the side, which was only cool when phones weren't yet fully interoperable with the Internet.

I feel the same way about the entire telephone system at this point.