Claude, explain
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, t9 text entry is so much slower than modern touch screen keyboards, nuance was definitely prohibitively time consuming for a while

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Also texting cost money at one point and was based on length, so you had to abbreviate.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Interestingly, serving those texts was literally free for the carriers. They used the empty space at the end of blocks of data the phones were using to stay in contact with the network. That's why it had that very specific character limit.

    SMS fees were pure profit for them.

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