The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007

Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by anexprogrammer on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:36PM (#12572260)

I'm not writing it off yet.

More of my friends are calling than in 2007 when it was texting, IM and then the mass rush to Facebook. Quite a few are now cutting down Facebook, a couple have left completely.

Maybe it's an age thing, but I find a 30 min call much more effective at "topping up the friendship" than any number of minutes online chat. I had a very early ICQ, and no end of IM since, but since smart phones the fragmentation has got so ridiculous I rarely bother. I think I'd need to install about 10 with 2-5 contacts in each to cover most and miss everyone using iMessage of course (never did understand why Apple didn't release for multiple platforms).

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by seanp2k2 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:42PM (#12572283)

They didn't support multiple platforms for the same reason Blackberry's BBM was a Blackberry exclusive; platform lock-in. I have iMessage and I love using it with people I text regularly. It still works for SMS, but it's a degraded experience. There are tons of other options now, but I still use iMessage the most since it's the best-integrated messenger on iOS, and they'll keep it that way with things like private APIs + total control over the App Store.

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by ralfd on Saturday September 24, 2016 @06:16PM (#12572879)

I wish instead of lasers and magic ink Apple would add group chat iMessage (and conference calls to Facetime).

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by kccqzy on Sunday September 25, 2016 @01:02AM (#12574058)

Group chat is already there since iOS 5 in the very beginning.

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