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"What's wrong with texting though?" Cost
Who is still paying for text messaging?
pretty much everyone outside the US, afaik...
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Snapchat's timeout feature is not just a novelty, is it allowing for a whole different type of digital communication. The sender does not have to worry about where their image might show up. It frees people to take goofy photos and act more naturally (as opposed to all the posed, staged shots on Instagram and Facebook).
I agree it frees people up to do the goofy, but as someone who's been doing the goofy my whole life, snapchat does nothing to add value in that respect. It just promotes it and now people understand the goofy.
Regardless if you are goofy or not SnapChat enables you to share that goofiness in a whole new way. You wouldn't send the stuff you send on SnapChat in a text or share it on Facebook.
And it's about much more than just being goofy. You share random things from your daily life that are interesting but not interesting enough to be sent in a text or be posted on Facebook.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Snapchat's timeout feature is not just a novelty, is it allowing for a whole different type of digital communication. The sender does not have to worry about where their image might show up. It frees people to take goofy photos and act more naturally (as opposed to all the posed, staged shots on Instagram and Facebook).
I don't know why this misconception keeps getting propogated. If the motivation to save pictures is there then a person will save the pictures. I have to believe it's the fad. I mean poke had this same feature yet it never took off
You send random things in SnapChat since you know it won't clutter your receiver's phone. It enables a whole new type of conversation and I'm sorry if you don't understand that. Fad or not SnapChat is a big part of me and my friends' life right now.
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pretty much everyone outside the US, afaik...
Honestly I had no idea. I have TMO in the US, and haven't paid for texting (unlimited) in years.
Well, "not paying" would be more accurate. If you're paying for unlimited text it's not free.
Other places may have a fee for SMS but the monthly payment is still much lower than in the US
And yes, I'd rather have my phone, and pay less per month then get a phone "for free" but shell out $100 per month
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Honestly I had no idea. I have TMO in the US, and haven't paid for texting (unlimited) in years.
Well, "not paying" would be more accurate. If you're paying for unlimited text it's not free. Other places may have a fee for SMS but the monthly payment is still much lower than in the US And yes, I'd rather have my phone , and pay less per month then get a phone "for free" but shell out $100 per month
I pay $50/month for unlimited calling, text, and data (5GB LTE speeds, then 2G) on T-Mobile. I pay outright for the phone (had a GalaxyNexus, moved to iPhone 5s). Its really not a bad deal.
Disclaimer: T-Mobile customer for 13 years.
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taking the perspective of the receiver is hard to justify as well. I mean really deleting a mms or just disabling it in any of the messaging services really is not that hard.
And yet, here we are with snapchat being hugely successful. Maybe you just don't understand what makes a product like this successful, and why things that are "not that hard" may be something that literally nobody does for a certain reason because they are hard enough.
im not saying its not hard and im not saying I dont' understand it, but to claim its something more than just the fad and brand is what im questioning.
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#89Introducing Nothing New. All they did was copy half of Snapchat's functionality and add the instagram ability to "edit" pictures. I don't get the point of all of this stuff sometimes. Is this what super smart and savvy people are working on in tech? Another way to send pictures to friends that isn't text, fb messenger, snapchat, kik, whatsapp, etc? Edit: I am really wondering if I'm missing something here with my abo…
People are doing this too. It looks dumb, but inside there're lots of interesting technical challenges.
Some of the awe inspiring breakthroughs are often extremely boring technically. I started my career in the computational chemistry and was looking over the shoulder of the guys doing some really bleeding etch research on organic compounds simulation. Oh, man, do you know how boring it is for a programmer? You're looking at the handwritten prototype of the research paper, filled with quantum physics formulae and encode all this greek language into FORTRAN-IV. Then you run it for a week and either go collecting Nobel prize or finding bugs in your "program".
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Well, "not paying" would be more accurate. If you're paying for unlimited text it's not free. Other places may have a fee for SMS but the monthly payment is still much lower than in the US And yes, I'd rather have my phone , and pay less per month then get a phone "for free" but shell out $100 per month
I pay $50/month for unlimited calling, text, and data (5GB LTE speeds, then 2G) on T-Mobile. I pay outright for the phone (had a GalaxyNexus, moved to iPhone 5s). Its really not a bad deal. Disclaimer: T-Mobile customer for 13 years.
True, not a bad deal at all
Some comparison values:
With 20€ per month on Ireland (pre-payed) one can get 250Mb AND Free calls in the network + free texts AND the 20€ for calls to other networks http://www.meteor.ie/pay-as-you-go/anytime-all-in/?linkid=pa... (if you go contract, the 20€ get you 1Gb Internet + 200Mins + Unlimited texts)