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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
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this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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when did SMS go out of style?
Probably when it was beaten in both features and cost by the alternatives.
More than decade ago when phones started to be capable to use Internet-based messaging standards, those that exists for computers for 30+ years.
I've been waiting for average users to catch up since about 2010 when I was running Pidgin (XMPP) on my Android, since SMS is terribly unreliable.
SMS is a best-effort protocol, with zero error checking, meaning no error correction, no ensured delivery. It's known to lose up to ten percent of messages.
It's also tightly bound to cellular architecture, since it encapsulates messages into the mostly-empty management frames of the cell network.
It was bleeding edge in 1986 (IIRC), but it's long past it's retirement time.
Because SMS are paid. I only use them because I am on a dumbphone and the plan is like $3 anyway.