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Yes, it's surprising how large amount of the SMSs get lost. At least in Finland this has been the case when using the most popular international SMS API provide
by SebaSeba 5y ago
Yes, it's surprising how large amount of the SMSs get lost. At least in Finland this has been the case when using the most popular international SMS API providers. I previously thought also that eventually the messages will be received but have learned otherwise after trying several providers for two different apps. And I have not even found any good explanations for the SMSs getting lost. I think this is sad from the perspective of Progressive Web Applications because often SMSs could act as an easy replacement for push notifications (which are kind of unavailable/unreliable for PWAs).
- thereddaikon 5y agoWhen you realize that SMS is a hack and not a service that was designed from the ground up to do what it does it isn't all that surprising really.
- mikro2nd 5y agoThis is true. However, email is explicitly not a reliable/guaranteed delivery system, so, despite the fact that is is really quite reliable, we keep that in mind when designing systems that make use of that channel of communication. SMS? Not so much. Idiots persist in thinking of it as reliable/guaranteed.
- NateEag 5y agoYour point would be more widely listened to if you used the less condemnatory label "The uninformed" instead of "idiots."