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Comment by danilocampos | Hacker News Reader

That really depends. Everyone I SMS right now has an iPhone. So, for my purposes it isn't limited at all. And since it's free, the iOS requirement doesn't hurt me as a user anyway. The moment this switches on, 99% of my texting stops costing me money. A network of 200 million users isn't a bad starting point.

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| Everyone I SMS right now has an iPhone.

This is very funny. Is your last name Jobs?

No, it's Campos. Nice to meet you. You can handicap my remark by observing I live in the Bay Area, but even my parents have iPhones, entirely of their own volition.

Haters gonna hate, but Steve just saved me a bunch of money, completely transparently. While pissing off a bunch of incompetent, exploitative carriers. I'm pretty pleased.

I'm not hating, I just think it's weird that everyone you know have iPhones, when Android devices are outselling iPhones 2:1 and have now a bigger market share than iOS. Yet it's still possible. I'm just impressed.

I'd read that again. Everyone I text has iPhones. With a possible exception every couple months. I don't live in IPhone Bubble but I certainly communicate inside of one. That doesn't strike me as terribly unusual.

And even if it were only half, I'm still saving money since I don't have to change my habits. Pretty good deal. If you're not a carrier.

I have to say this is an important distinction. Nearly everyone I /text/ has an iPhone, because they are the ones that text back. The exceptions are both Blackberry users.

All of my dumb-phone friends (and my single Android friend), will just call me back if I text them, so I might as well dial them in the first place.

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