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Neven Mrgan's tumbl: What iMessage did to my text-messaging usage

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iOS 5 introduced iMessage, a service that seeks to replace text messaging. Carriers view text messaging as a special, astronomically priced type of data - iMessage undoes this madness and uses your dumb data pipe to send text, pictures, and videos to users identified by their email or phone…

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  1. 5wathi reblogged this from mrgan
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  3. day0 reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    great point. SMS is...*most* profitable data product that US carriers have. Based
  4. male73 reblogged this from emergentfutures
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  6. beenposh reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
    yup, it’s called “fixing the problem.”
  7. louisjohnd reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
    If only people I knew used iMessage -__-
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  10. dombarnes reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    Neven has posted his SMS usage over the past year...so and you can see how rapid
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  16. remainders reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    Text usage down since introduction of...sure, but I’ve noticed
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