Comments on: The real iPhone 3G rip-off: Text messages

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By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:53:35 +0000

You can afford to go to the University of Michigan and live in California and you are complaining about this? Man I wish I had your problems.

By: Twitter kills Canadian SMS updates. Can the U.S. be far behind? - zakeh blog

Twitter kills Canadian SMS updates. Can the U.S. be far behind? - zakeh blog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:58:27 +0000

[...] you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As regular readers know, I hate SMS (text messaging). It’s not the idea [...]

By: Twitter kills Canadian SMS updates. Can the U.S. be far behind? » VentureBeat

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:59:55 +0000

[...] I hate SMS (text messaging). It’s not the idea or technology that I hate, it’s just the ridiculous costs associated with it. Why should I pay AT&T $15 a month for unlimited text message (tiny amounts of data) when I [...]

By: The T-Mobile G1 is significantly cheaper long term than the iPhone 3G. Why? Text messaging » VentureBeat

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:24:28 +0000

[...] After all is said and done (meaning after your two year contract is up), T-Mobile’s new G1 Google Android phone is about $380 cheaper than a roughly comparable iPhone 3G, Wired nicely lays out. The reason? The absolutely ludicrous price AT&T charges for text messages. [...]

By: Chad Hurley’s 2018: Video wristwatches for all » VentureBeat

Chad Hurley’s 2018: Video wristwatches for all » VentureBeat — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:41:57 +0000

[...] Ten years in the world of technology is a long time. It’s unreasonable to think we can really predict what the world will be like then because there will be things that emerge which we’re not even thinking about today. People get all worked up when I say something like text-messaging is going to die, but does anyone really believe that in 2018 we’re still going to be charged an insane rate to send a few bytes of data? [...]

By: Want to bypass iPhone SMS fees for Twitter updates? Get JustUpdate » VentureBeat

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:40:33 +0000

[...] (text message) rates in general are ridiculous, but they’re arguably worse for Apple’s iPhone 3G. Whereas the original iPhone included 200 free text messages with your data plan, the 3G data plan [...]

By: iPhail: The Marketing Failure Behind the 3G iPhone

iPhail: The Marketing Failure Behind the 3G iPhone — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:59:10 +0000

[...] much your phone + service will cost me over the same period of time, you’re doing it wrong. The data plan doesn’t cover text messages, the syncing features cost extra, existing iPhone customers can’t figure out if they’re going [...]

By: Twitter shuts down SMS in all but 3 countries. What next?! | Startup Meme

Twitter shuts down SMS in all but 3 countries. What next?! | Startup Meme — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:08:27 +0000

[...] yet carriers seem to think it’s okay to charge an arm and a leg for it. In the United States, AT&T switched its policy with the iPhone 3G to no longer include any text messages in its plans …. Now, if you want to send messages it’s $5 for 200 of them. That is ridiculous when you already [...]

By: Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS already? » VentureBeat

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:14:19 +0000

[...] yet carriers seem to think it’s okay to charge an arm and a leg for it. In the United States, AT&T switched its policy with the iPhone 3G and no longer included any text messages in its plan…. Now, if you want to send message it’s $5 for 200 of them. That is ridiculous when you [...]

By: SMS Text News » Archives » SMS - die already (Short Message Scam)

SMS Text News » Archives » SMS - die already (Short Message Scam) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:04:34 +0000

[...] I would pay $10 more a month and then got used to the number. And then, MG Siegler at VentureBeat blew the lid off the iPhone hype (at least in my mind) by reading the small print. The 200 text messages that used [...]

By: Twitter has its search, now it’s time to embrace mobile » VentureBeat

Twitter has its search, now it’s time to embrace mobile » VentureBeat — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:21:00 +0000

[...] Just imagine how useful a location-aware Twitter app could be (to those who choose to use such functionality). Imagine a Twitter app with Summize search built into it. Twitter could be the de-facto application of this new mobile generation. It could kill the colossal rip-off that is the text message. [...]

By: iPhail: The Marketing Failure Behind the 3G iPhone | Marketing Ninja

iPhail: The Marketing Failure Behind the 3G iPhone | Marketing Ninja — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:08:14 +0000

[...] your phone + service will cost me over the same period of time, you’re doing it wrong. The data plan doesn’t cover text messages, the syncing features cost extra, existing iPhone customers can’t figure out if they’re [...]

By: Roundup: Microsoft/Icahn offered Yahoo $2.3B, the Gphone continues to be imaginary and more » VentureBeat

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:25:30 +0000

[...] rates? Bypass them. — I’ve gone on rants a few times now about just how big of a rip-off text messages are. Now, thanks to the new AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) app on the iPhone you can bypass them. TidBITS [...]

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