SMS - The Life Span?
Once in a while, I do get into discussions with some colleagues. The other times, I keep speaking in my head (which is very much like blogging in your head).
A conversation with Rupal made me realise that in the next 2-3 years, SMS would soon be as extinct a technology as the very-hyped pager.
You may think I am crazy!
But look around you - out of 10 people I meet, 3-4 have mobile phones (I would rather call them PC's) that have the following features (apart from many others, of course):
- They have an email client which can keep you logged on 24/7;
- They have the famous qwerty keyboard which makes typining pretty easy;
- The client alerts (vibrates/beeps) when it receives an email
The rate of technology is such that in the next 1-2 years, these would be 'stale' features. Every one who matters would have these kind of phones, and email-on-the-fly would air - all around.
The great strengths that email has over sms are:
- Unlimited archiving;
- Even better, email is free to send;
- The best: the capacity to contain more than 160 characters;
- Then, it doesn't depend so much on the network congestion (try sending an sms on New Year's Night - and count yourself lucky if it gets delivered in less thatn 15 seconds).
I don't see why people would be using sms the way they do now. From the merasport point of view, that is one reason why we have started an email-alerts service along with the sms-alerts.
There would still be people who would use sms - like there were people till four years ago who did use the pager. But sms has some core flaws in itself - and the moment we have something matching, we will be ready to ditch the old lady for the new one.
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Glad you liked this layout! All made in Drupal - took some time to learn it - but was worth the learning. MeraSport has been made using the same stuff.
This is the best layout your blog ever had. Very soothing read - simple and attractive layout. The minimum colors gel well. And i love the font.
Valid take! Probably it would take more time than we think, though, since voice and speech requires a lot of 'error adjustment' - like the engine will have to adjust to the various English accents. Then, typing imparts another degree of privacy which speaking can take away. Par point to hai.
My take on this is that very soon we will get rid of the whole typing thing. Dictate your emails and hear your emails.
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