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Re: Wired access to SMS?


From: Bryan Tong <contact () nullivex com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:50:46 -0600

Arent most of the services now wrapped into Google for Business where
you are the customer?

I dont know about Google voice though.

Thanks

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:47 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 old inbound
and outbound text messages.

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.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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