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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by eikenberry on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:33PM (#25144726)
It's the default messaging app on every phone everywhere so there's nothing to install or convert to (from MMS, which everyone is already using) and nothing to get everyone to agree on. It's kind of crap, but it works and is ubiquitous.

I'm kind of surprised it isn't still a thing in Europe. Did cell phones just not take off until the mid 2000s when there were other options available.. so MMS didn't have the inertia it has in the US? It is pretty ingrained here, for example all take out services use MMS to give you order status and, AFAIK, they don't support other messaging systems.

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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by MartijnBraam on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:28PM (#25145541)
SMS does exist, it's just that mms that's weird for EU users. It used to be expensive and support was horrible. My current provider doesn't even support mms anymore.
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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by eikenberry on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:18PM (#25145834)
Ok, that makes sense. MMS is more the default here and is used mostly instead, not exactly sure why. But SMS would work fine for most of the use cases.
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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by pmontra on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:17AM (#25147328)
It was the cost. It drove people away from SMS to IP protocol messaging systems which also had a better UX. SMS used to cost quite a lot.
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