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Do you remember the name of the post card service? Sounds neat!
I recall this being similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36371168
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#42I really like the concept of "text this number to perform action". There was a post a few months back about a postcard creation service where you just text a photo.
How do you "text a photo"? Does this imply iMessage or MMS? I'm based in Europe and nobody uses SMS or iMessage here, so genuine question.
How do you send a message to someone's phone number, then? Or do you somehow not use phone numbers anymore?
Re: Show HN: Mel – The missing unsubscribe button for physical mail
#43I really like the concept of "text this number to perform action". There was a post a few months back about a postcard creation service where you just text a photo.
How do you "text a photo"? Does this imply iMessage or MMS? I'm based in Europe and nobody uses SMS or iMessage here, so genuine question.
It's nearly universal parlance in the USA to call MMS and SMS 'texts'. They are shown and treated as the same thing by the phone OS. I wouldn't expect the average layperson to even know there's a difference.
I'm honestly surprised that's not the case everywhere. Do you distinguish SMS and MMS in casual conversation?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you "text a photo"? Does this imply iMessage or MMS? I'm based in Europe and nobody uses SMS or iMessage here, so genuine question.
How do you send a message to someone's phone number, then? Or do you somehow not use phone numbers anymore?
We mostly use Whatsapp or Signal, which both use phone numbers for account identification/verification.
I am surprised again and again how different the US and Europa are in this respect, and even more about how little people are aware of that. Nobody uses iMessage outside of the US, and the UI of Whatsapp/Signal/Telegram are arguably much better.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you "text a photo"? Does this imply iMessage or MMS? I'm based in Europe and nobody uses SMS or iMessage here, so genuine question.
It's nearly universal parlance in the USA to call MMS and SMS 'texts'. They are shown and treated as the same thing by the phone OS. I wouldn't expect the average layperson to even know there's a difference. I'm honestly surprised that's not the case everywhere. Do you distinguish SMS and MMS in casual conversation?
Afaik nobody uses MMS in central Europe. Depending on the carrier it is not even supported anymore, and has been very expensive before that. Virtually everyone switched to Whatsapp ten years ago.
Re: Show HN: Mel – The missing unsubscribe button for physical mail
#46Thanks to privacy laws, we do not get much personal spam in the mail in France (one that is addressed to you). We get quite a lot of anonymous one, though.
There are stickers your can use on your mailbox that theoretically protect your from spam but it works maybe in 10% of the cases.
Out of curiosity, I reached a few times to the "senders" telling them that they put spam in my mailbox despite the sticker. All of them were completely taken aback and had no idea about how to react.
I mentioned privacy and whatnot and they all promised to get back to me, never got back and probably cross fingers to have the case closed :)
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's nearly universal parlance in the USA to call MMS and SMS 'texts'. They are shown and treated as the same thing by the phone OS. I wouldn't expect the average layperson to even know there's a difference. I'm honestly surprised that's not the case everywhere. Do you distinguish SMS and MMS in casual conversation?
Afaik nobody uses MMS in central Europe. Depending on the carrier it is not even supported anymore, and has been very expensive before that. Virtually everyone switched to Whatsapp ten years ago.
Weird. I don't know anyone who uses WhatsApp or similar in the US. MMS is well supported and usually billed the same as SMS these days (AFAIK).
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you "text a photo"? Does this imply iMessage or MMS? I'm based in Europe and nobody uses SMS or iMessage here, so genuine question.
It's nearly universal parlance in the USA to call MMS and SMS 'texts'. They are shown and treated as the same thing by the phone OS. I wouldn't expect the average layperson to even know there's a difference. I'm honestly surprised that's not the case everywhere. Do you distinguish SMS and MMS in casual conversation?
I just moved to the USA from Europe and have found sms/mms to be annoying. I'm consistently missing texts especially mms. Maybe my settings are slightly off or the payload is exceeding MMS size limits but it's way less reliable than Whatsapp. Everyone seems to use iPhones so they don't hit this issue until they text an android user like me.