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When will iMessage replace text messaging for you?
I find myself using less and less text messages as I and my friends/colleagues are making the switch to iOS devices. When will it take over? Can the providers stop it?
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It's already being done... on Apple's iOS iMessage took over with a vengeance... started with text only and quietly moved to photos and video. Now iMessage is also on Mac OS X greatly communicating with any iOS device nice and smooth. Android is not left behind since Google has come up with Google+ which offer the same as iMessage functions plus a Twitter like full media and social interaction... leaving Windows Mobile as the under dog without a proper weapon to fight back... or an OS for that matter LOL!... anyways... SMS is as good as dead... no price cuts, no unlimited... nothing... there's no use for it anymore... expect that function to be fully removed in a very very near future...
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It will take over when every person has an iOS device, until then expect SMS/MMS to stick around. Carriers could either lower prices, or start incentives like "unlimited texts to everyone on our network," similar to the program many have for their cell service.
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Probably when most of my contacts have an iPhone which right now is only 10%
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Done, I have canceled my unlimited texting plan :)
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Well, for some people it could take a very long time. Since they text a lot of different people and only some of those people have iPhones running iOS5 or better.
Myself, I mostly just text my wife with hardly any texts to anybody else. So I'll probably kill my texting plan pretty soon now. As soon as I get a bill confirming that the number of actual texts I send is down to near zero. I won't stop using MMS of course, I'll just pay for them one by one and only use a few a month.
Myself, I mostly just text my wife with hardly any texts to anybody else. So I'll probably kill my texting plan pretty soon now. As soon as I get a bill confirming that the number of actual texts I send is down to near zero. I won't stop using MMS of course, I'll just pay for them one by one and only use a few a month.
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These answers presume that no iOS user would message an Android owner or that everyone will have an iOS device and there will be no alternative. Get real. SMS is not going anywhere as it's the only thing running for cross platform communication and the carriers make money off of it thus reducing the price of your phone.
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