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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by navane on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:40AM (#32935851)
where i live (western europe), the telco's overcharged for sms, making a decent conversation costs euros each. Whatsapp + wifi is free.

I heard that originally sms wasn't meant to be a consumer product, it was just so technicians could test or communicate. Then the telco's realized people like texting more than calling (people prefer async sometimes, weird because comms mainly developed from async to sync), and decided to charge a limb for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by prmoustache on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:50AM (#32936727)
In reality it is more async than texting that please people because nowadays most people use whatsapp as a walkie-talkie over internet.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by bearmode on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:28AM (#32936590)
Where I live (also Western Europe), pretty much everyone has unlimited free texts included in whatever telco plan they have
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