The end of text? Yeah right
Normally it’s US-based companies proclaiming the end of text in favour of some implausible way of passing messages for the semiliterate, but this time it’s BT, or at least its quoted as saying so on webuser.co.uk. The not particularly original thinking behind this assertion is that IM is going to become the platform for interaction along with e-mail. I think this is missing the point: SMS is instant messaging for a vast number of people. Even more so when presented as a thread as on the iPhone. I think we’re going to see a lot of very innovative ways of using SMS before it finally dies out.
