Tag: AIM

My cousin just sent me this via AIM on his iPhone. He’s at work in the basement of his college library where cell service is unabashedly terrible.

“ok so push notifications work down here over wifi. I have no cell coverage and I’m getting notifications.”

If that isn’t a reason to get rid of SMS in favor of a push-enabled IM app, I don’t know what is.

I am disabling text messages on my phone as I can now receive them via push notification on my iPhone through AOL Instant Messenger. So, if you need to reach me and your phone supports AIM, use that instead. If, however, you prefer to use an alternative IM client (MSN, Yahoo!, Facebook, etc.) please let me know and as soon as a multi-protocol client is ready for push notification on the iPhone, I will switch to that.

Thanks for your understanding in reducing my cell phone bill and in sticking it to the price-gouging bastards at AT&T (and all other cell companies that force you to pay so damned much for a 160 character message).