you are right Aki ! On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Mbugua Njihia <mbugua@symbiotic.co.ke> wrote:
I am curious to know what you guys think of this service J
Kipokezi, another Safaricom service in partnership with ForgetMeNot - http://bit.ly/bbEoKT
If you want my honest opinion, based on your write up :
- The app will do very poorly. ( unless the population just woke up and discovered such technologies ) - The app is more in favour of the operator than the user. SMS characters limit = 160, 1Mbyte characters limit = 1,000,000 ( or close ). Costs of 1 SMS versus 1 Mbyte is hugely out of proprotional. Big looser is the end user. - The app providing chat services is an old idea. Beginning in the edge days, such apps were available for most handsets.
Bad idea for the gentleman ( as per your article ) to start selling big words like rural urban Digital Divide. He wants the rural to spend on SMS'es while the operators should really be the ones spreading data networks across the country which in turn is leading to cheaper smart phones or basic smartphones. I think the application is anti-development and a contributor of the real digital divide = affordable costs
Have I mis-interpreted the app?
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