Some passing thoughts:
Wouldn’t it be so useful if you could have group SMS conversations via a “reply to all” feature, just like you can with email? Imagine how much more profit the mobile operators could be making. What a lost opportunity!
By the way, if you like mulling over half-baked ideas, you should check out halfbakery.com. It used to be a favourite of mine a few years ago. Ideas on it tend to be quite fun in a brainstormy outside-the-box kind of way. Good for creative thinking.
Oh, and another thing about SMS. Did you know how ridiculously easy it is to send a spoofed SMS these days? It’s scary.
I posted a few ideas to Halfbakery a few years back. I love the idea of sharing good ideas that you’ll never do (yourself) instead of just letting them die, or keeping them secret.
Hi,
Reply to all is, if I may say so, a great idea. Glad you brought it up!
Sendm has developped JUST THAT. In addition you can send SMS messages to your friends on Facebook all nice and simple.
It works with a large variety of devices and mobile operators around the world.
You can download Sendm for free from Getjar.com.
As for the Operators, while they all talk to us and express their interest, they are not the quickest actors around… but we have launched with a number of operators around the world… more coming soon!