While reading a recent Techcrunch piece on Blipr (free iPhone app that enables messaging with other iPhone users), I couldn’t help but fear for the fate of the humble text message as we know it. If we can safely assume that handsets like iPhones are the future (surely in four or five years time they’ll be as everyday as colour screens on mobiles are now), then it’s only a matter of time before everyone has a mobile device with extensive app options for messaging via the internet connection of their device, rather than using more expensive SMS options.
Whatsmore, even if the cost of using the SMS format falls – it still seems unlikely that it could compete with the much cheaper cost…