Re:Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse?
by pmontra on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:04AM
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I rarely use SMS, only with people I know to have old (not smart)phones or could be offline and must be immediately reached without a voice call.
I can type SMS on my Ubuntu laptop with GSConnect and there are apps like Airdroid that implement similar functionality. Still 99.999% of the time it's Whatsapp or Telegram which have web and desktop apps.
But to type any kind of message from a computer one must have a computer and be willing to use it. Not everyone can use a computer all day long and not every boy or girl is allowed on the family PC all the time. Furthermore they and everybody else prefer to message friends on their own phones instead of on some computer shared with other family members.
I can type SMS on my Ubuntu laptop with GSConnect and there are apps like Airdroid that implement similar functionality. Still 99.999% of the time it's Whatsapp or Telegram which have web and desktop apps.
But to type any kind of message from a computer one must have a computer and be willing to use it. Not everyone can use a computer all day long and not every boy or girl is allowed on the family PC all the time. Furthermore they and everybody else prefer to message friends on their own phones instead of on some computer shared with other family members.