On 21/01/2010 07:25, Randy Bush wrote: >> It's funny how we circle around with technology, folks are dumping >> their phone land lines and adopting wireless/mobile that required a >> substantial technology leap and investment and now we are using the >> mobile phone to "text" an incompressible dialect worse than the early >> teletype/telex days but with a humongous infrastructure to support it. > > and paying and exhorbitant price per word for negligible bandwidth. > > run your own servers or use a friend's and use email >
I don't know about anyone else, but the vast majority of my non-tech friends (and even most of my tech ones) don't use email on their phone. Anyone (i.e. everyone I know) who has a mobile phone has the ability to receive an SMS and some things in life are far too much hassle to nickel and dime over the cost per word of sending a communication - life is too short. B
