Arent most of the services now wrapped into Google for Business where you are the customer?
I dont know about Google voice though. Thanks On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:47 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. > > 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. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > -- > William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 > -- -------------------- Bryan Tong Nullivex LLC | eSited LLC (507) 298-1624