I am with you on that, Cleverboy. I would add SMS to that. Both are such arcane/old-world ways to communicate. The only reason they have survived is that data access has hitherto been so stingily doled out by the service providers, and people had 2 lk fr mre effnt wys 2 commncte.
With the increased availability of fairly-priced data (and the increasing prevalence of push email), it is a generational thing that will be gone soon.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I am with you on that, Cleverboy. I would add SMS to that. Both are such arcane/old-world ways to communicate. The only reason they have survived is that data access has hitherto been so stingily doled out by the service providers, and people had 2 lk fr mre effnt wys 2 commncte.
With the increased availability of fairly-priced data (and the increasing prevalence of push email), it is a generational thing that will be gone soon.