On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, steve pirk [egrep] <st...@pirk.com> wrote: > > Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my > > devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as > > needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my old > inbound > > and outbound text messages. > ++1 on Google Voice. > Hi Steve, > > Google voice is a fine service and if they sold it with an API, I > might well buy it. As a free public service with a strictly unofficial > API, I can't seriously consider using it in my product's critical > path. I need a service whose provider is actually obligated to keep it > working to the standard of resilience typical of the rest of my > system. > > Let me put it another way: with google voice, google mail, google > search you are not the customer. You're the product. I use gmail for > my personal mail and I can live with that. For business services, I > need to be the customer. > FWLIW - I think that is a bit harsh, even if mostly accurate. I love GVoice for sending & receiving texts across multiple devices, some of which aren't cellular - or wired - at all :). *(Also have phone calls ring not just my phones, but Skype and GChat as well ...)* /TJ
