Deirdre, I think you're wrong about Obopay versus Textpayme being like a windowed interface versus command-line. The whole reason Textpayme went with text messaging as the way for people to pay one another is that it's extremely familiar. In our world of high speed tech familiarity is much more important in winning over users then the BEST technical solution. It's like Betamax versus VHS; the BEST way to do something doesn't always (or even frequently) win. Even myself as an advanced user of most tech finds it annoying to have to download and install apps on my cell. True, text messaging is by no means perfect either, but it's a heck of a lot more convenient and ultimately usable then an entirely separate app. Just my two cents.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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Deirdre, I think you're wrong about Obopay versus Textpayme being like a windowed interface versus command-line. The whole reason Textpayme went with text messaging as the way for people to pay one another is that it's extremely familiar. In our world of high speed tech familiarity is much more important in winning over users then the BEST technical solution. It's like Betamax versus VHS; the BEST way to do something doesn't always (or even frequently) win. Even myself as an advanced user of most tech finds it annoying to have to download and install apps on my cell. True, text messaging is by no means perfect either, but it's a heck of a lot more convenient and ultimately usable then an entirely separate app. Just my two cents.