Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat messaging service

Re:Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat me... by cyberferret on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:15AM (#16902679)

I am in Australia, and just going back through my messages list on my phone, I can see that my wife, my massage therapist and doctor/dentist etc. are mainly who sends me texts these days, oh, and my telco also does voice to text translations and send the transcripts to me via SMS.

I do recall that my doctors office did offer the option of Snapchat recently, I believe, for appointment alerts. Also, the voice to text thing, I have been thinking of writing my own little app connected to my SIP phone system and Amazon AWS to try and achieve the same thing, just as a little programming exercise.

If I have to be honest, if my SMS was turned off tomorrow, there would be very little impact on my life (as long as I installed Telegram or Snapchat on my wife's phone).

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Re:Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat me... by barbs on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:32AM (#16902776)

I'm also in Australia. Most of my messaging goes through other apps, mostly WhatsApp or FB messenger. I do have a few friends that are holding out on SMS but mostly I just treat it as a backup service for when I don't have data.

SMS has already been replaced by far more secure and mature apps. It's good to have it there as a primitive option though.

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