[Spivak]

Nobody outside of business and advertising cares how annoying it is to write carefully formatted HTML emails.

For any end user, email is the universal communication mechanism.

[AznHisoka]

Also very few people care how well formatted your html emails are. Give me plaintext anyday.

[paxy]

For text based communication SMS absolutely dwarfs email.

[huhweirdyhat]

In what respect? I don't think i've ever gotten an important SMS outside of personal communications, let alone the 50+ emails I get a day that are considered "important" in some way.