Know what's better? Open specifications and federated services. It's called XMPP and if it's not enough, then something better should be developed.
Is this the replacement of SMS? Not sure what people would have thought at the time if they could not send SMS to other mobile carriers. It saddens me even more to see public institutions moving their SMS infrastructure to the new 'carriers'.
Protocols are not a new thing. Let's not go back to the time were computers could not talk to each other.
Awesome, great, APIs are good.
Know what's better? Open specifications and federated services. It's called XMPP and if it's not enough, then something better should be developed.
Is this the replacement of SMS? Not sure what people would have thought at the time if they could not send SMS to other mobile carriers. It saddens me even more to see public institutions moving their SMS infrastructure to the new 'carriers'.
Protocols are not a new thing. Let's not go back to the time were computers could not talk to each other.