Will You Soon Be Sending Texts From Your Landline Phone?
In the last few months there has been a push to extend SMS text messaging to landline phones. At first glance, this makes sense. Why should you only be able to send/receive text messages from a mobile phone? However, when you start to think about it, it makes considerably less sense. First, the reason SMS text messaging works so well, and makes sense is that each phone only has one owner, and the phone is likely to be near that owner most of the time. Those conditions don't necessarily apply to a landline phone. When it gets to the point that you are sending a message to or from a stationary device when the person you're trying to reach might not be there, why not just use email?
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