[benjamincanfly]

If you're focusing on Anroid, yeah. If you're betting on SMS-based services lasting very long, that'll be a losing bet.

[ericwaller]

Betting against SMS would be like betting against email. I don't think either is going anywhere anytime soon.

And Android is like the linux for phone OSes (which is a weird thing to say since it actually is linux..), consumers want a unified, polished experience, not an ad-hoc one.

[bigbang]

Why? Care to explain little more. Are you implying that iphone will reduce the overall use of sms and hence sms based services?

[benjamincanfly]

I think most handheld devices will be application-based in a few years, instead of relying on SMS, which is basically a cell's version of the command line.