![]() ![]() This meant that years and years went by with one mobile messaging standard across all cellphone users. So, as we tend to do, humanity simply used what was there and most convenient. Instant messengers were around, sure, but they weren’t really ready for cellphones since the wireless internet infrastructure wasn’t in place for everyone to use them even if they were ready for prime time. It is an old, outdated, under-powered solution here in 2022, but back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, it was all we had. Once upon a time, every mobile phone user out there used the MMS/SMS standard if they were sending a message from their device. If you are reading this in another country, please don’t laugh too hard at us. Sure, it’s borderline ridiculous and silly, but the rise of Apple and the iPhone as the de facto smartphone for the majority of users in the States means Apple’s own, proprietary messaging platform – iMessage – has created a real rift in the once-universal cellphone messaging paradigm. Here in the USA, there’s a particular conundrum we find ourselves in, and it revolves around text messages.
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