{"id":858,"date":"2008-12-04T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T09:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2008-12-04T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T09:18:47","slug":"sms-no-longer-exist-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/sms-no-longer-exist-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"SMS no longer exist for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>I saw a tweet saying that Americans now send twice as many text messages as Europeans and this makes me think of just one thing. It&#8217;s obsolete. <\/p>\n<p>What I mean by that is that now that I have a data plan and skype and gtalk on my phone I refuse to send sms which I have to pay for when everyone I know uses at least one IM client. It&#8217;s so much cheaper (free) for me to chat with you on gtalk. There&#8217;s also more chance that I&#8217;ll get an answer. <\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t like the idea of sending sms when there is a better contemporary technology out there costing far less money \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Just to give you an example. I&#8217;ve been with friends in Geneva and Lausanne chatting with other people via gtalk from bars, restaurants and the living room couch. I&#8217;ve even skype called a friend with the N95 and she&#8217;s in the US. All of this is free, inclusive data within my contract. I want you to modernise, let&#8217;s use mobile communication in a more creative way than missed phone calls and unanswered SMS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I saw a tweet saying that Americans now send twice as many text messages as Europeans and this makes me think of just one thing. It&#8217;s obsolete. What I mean by that is that now that I have a data plan and skype and gtalk on my phone I refuse to send sms which I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,104,314],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gtalk","tag-skype","tag-sms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}