Why Facebook badly needs Steve Jobs

Post by JoeCortopassi » Tue, Nov 16, 2010, 9:31 PM UTC

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #51

apl wrote: post #35

SMS and email are different. SMS costs $ per message. Email does not. In the Facebook UI, if you add a SMS user to an email thread, he will receive numerous SMSes from email users who don't realize that they're racking up his bill. Wait a minute, is that true? Do you pay for receiving text messages in the US? That does seem a little crazy from a European perspective.

Technically you can get some nominal charge per text, but most people have an 'unlimited texts' plan. It's like buying a phone and not having minutes now days

Post by bad_user » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 6:53 AM UTC

v21 wrote: post #69

bad_user wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's unfortunate, but it's the way the world is today. You're saying it as if it's a bad thing. Email is asynchronous. IM and SMS are disruptive. And on IM versus SMS, the sender of a SMS usually doesn't know if the recipient received the message, while the default behavior of IM is to notify your contacts list if you're online. These are different mediums people use for different kinds of communication / contacts.…

"the sender of a SMS usually doesn't know if the recipient received the message" - is this true? Delivery reports are pretty reliable with SMS. I know some people use them and some don't but I'd be curious to see the figures. Email, by contrast, hasn't got any reports that any decent human being would use. And IM is somewhat different again, in that it broadcasts availability, as opposed to receipt. But yes - differe…