> Agreed ;-) I argued that SMS would be dead by 2008. That certainly hasn't > happened yet, but it's on its way with the iPhone, particularly in Canada > and other countries where SMS charges are high and getting more expensive, > and data charges are trending towards low capped limits.
That may be true of North America, but y'all never really got into the whole SMS thing. Take a look at Australia or New Zealand where text messages have replaced phone calls between friends in many instances and data costs more than its worth (there is *no* such thing as unlimited data or even cheap data in Australia - certainly not over mobile). Or some parts of Africa where folks don't own chargers, just phones - to preserve battery life they leave their phones off and only turn them on periodically to check for texts and reply. Whether SMS is relevant to this discussion is a different matter, but SMS isn't going anywhere for a long time. Lachlan Hardy
