> We have now reached the point where SMS support no longer makes sense
> ...
> Now, data plans are cheaper and far more ubiquitous than they were nearly a decade ago
I'm curious, are these guys lives in a bubble or what? I think they should try to travel around the world a bit.
> we’ve heard repeatedly from people who’ve been hit with high messaging fees after assuming that the SMS messages they were sending were Signal messages, only to find out that they were using SMS, and being charged by their telecom provider.
So in essence, they fuc*d up UI/UX and now the simplest approach to fix would be just to remove it. Sounds like a brilliant idea from an MBA guy or whatever-evangelist-title-is.
> ...
> Now, data plans are cheaper and far more ubiquitous than they were nearly a decade ago
I'm curious, are these guys lives in a bubble or what? I think they should try to travel around the world a bit.
> we’ve heard repeatedly from people who’ve been hit with high messaging fees after assuming that the SMS messages they were sending were Signal messages, only to find out that they were using SMS, and being charged by their telecom provider.
So in essence, they fuc*d up UI/UX and now the simplest approach to fix would be just to remove it. Sounds like a brilliant idea from an MBA guy or whatever-evangelist-title-is.