This sums it well when is comes to smartphone owner’s personalities
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: What iMessage did to my text-messaging usage
Neven has a great point. SMS is the *most* profitable data product that US carriers have. Based on usage fees and bundles, it is around $20,000-$30,000 per GB of revenue.
With iMessage uptake, that revenue base is facing a serious challenge. Would not surprised to see carriers offer ‘binary’ plans (per per message on unlimited) as a way to counter it. Just don’t expect anything innovative…
iOS 5 introduced iMessage, a service that seeks to replace text messaging. Carriers view text messaging as a special, astronomically priced type of data - iMessage undoes this madness and uses your dumb data pipe to send text, pictures, and videos to users identified by their email or phone…
Every minute, 925 iPhones are sold and 1,820TB of data is generated!
