SMS
4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2015 by Jonathan Libov · across every show →
Everything said about SMS, oldest first
Jul 13, 2015 bearish
SMS Will Not Become a Primary Interface for Mobile Services
“I do also think that in in a variety of cases, I, you know, I'm not a believer. That SMS is going to, because there are people who are quite a bit more optimistic than I am that SMS is going to be one of the primary ways that we interact with services on our p…”
Jul 13, 2015 bullish
May 27, 2021
New Communication Channels Layer on Older Ones Rather Than Replacing Them
“What you find is that these new channels don't replace each other. So Video and push notifications and things. They don't replace SMS, so you don't have the situation where the SMS market plateaus, or the email market with the synchronization, you know, where …”
Oct 13, 2022
Söderström: Early mobile data messaging cost 1/1000th of SMS
“So we started this company where you could send text messages over data instead of SMS. And already back then, even though you paid per kilobit, it was still one month thousand the cost of sending the same, you know, 160 characters over, over text message.”