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Re: Wired access to SMS?
From: TJ <trejrco () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:25:05 -0400
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, steve pirk [egrep] <steve () pirk com> wrote:Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my oldinboundand outbound text messages.
++1 on Google Voice.
Hi Steve, Google voice is a fine service and if they sold it with an API, I might well buy it. As a free public service with a strictly unofficial API, I can't seriously consider using it in my product's critical path. I need a service whose provider is actually obligated to keep it working to the standard of resilience typical of the rest of my system. Let me put it another way: with google voice, google mail, google search you are not the customer. You're the product. I use gmail for my personal mail and I can live with that. For business services, I need to be the customer.
FWLIW - I think that is a bit harsh, even if mostly accurate. I love GVoice for sending & receiving texts across multiple devices, some of which aren't cellular - or wired - at all :). *(Also have phone calls ring not just my phones, but Skype and GChat as well ...)* /TJ
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- Re: Wired access to SMS? Lyle Giese (Oct 09)
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- Re: Wired access to SMS? William Herrin (Oct 09)
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- Re: Wired access to SMS? Bryan Tong (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? Tim M Edwards (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? William Herrin (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? Ray Van Dolson (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? shawn wilson (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? jamie rishaw (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? William Herrin (Oct 10)