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Re:GroupMe Is Now Sending One Million Texts Every Day by muerdeme on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:22PM (#2217873)
1) Why isn't this feature built in to smart phones? I know it's a big pain point for me on iOS. I assume it's not on Android if there is this much uptake.

2) How on earth are they going to make money? Their suggestion for location based sponsored group chat sounds terrible to me, because you'd be opting in to miniature twitter feed that clogs up your text inbox instead of being able to read it asynchronously.

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Re:GroupMe Is Now Sending One Million Texts Every Day by saurik on Monday February 14, 2011 @06:10PM (#2219155)
iOS actually supports sending text messages to multiple people, and that "group" is maintained in the SMS app for later broadcasts.

However, when you receive an incoming text message you don't know whether it was coming to just you or CC a hundred other numbers, so there is no way to Reply All.

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