Posted by unregistered user at 7/2/08 8:53 a.m.

i send text message from my pc all the time...what problem are they really solving?

Posted by unregistered user at 7/2/08 9:04 a.m.

The sad thing is that previous success doesn't always seem to be an indicator of future success (e.g. Expedia, Visio).

Posted by unregistered user at 7/2/08 1:08 p.m.

Amdocs acquired Qpass long before Qpass acquired not Simplewire but "Certain assets" of Simplewire (e.g. their connectivity to carriers, that Qpass's OpenMarket business did not have and could not have ever since carreirs stopped connecting aggregators. Also, if ZipWhip is going to attack text messaging from phone to PC they may actually solve a big problem. texting between phone and PC is still not easy, especially if you consider that carriers have been so far reluctant to promote IM on the phone. Yes, there are a number of companies "solving" that, like Chikka and others, but at the end of the day, it's still not resolved in a big way, and I don't know if it can be. The carriers space is so fragmented and they are so difficult to work with (e.g. it takes a year or 1.5 years to close a deal with each one of them) that many startups have gone out of money trying to cross that space. But it can be done.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/2/08 2:58 p.m.

Did this guy miss the memo that almost any IM program allows you to send messages in text format to a cell phone?

I try not to be the typical Seattle Cynic but I hear the crash of this one coming already...

Posted by unregistered user at 7/2/08 4:24 p.m.

I've personally tried every IM client out there and the user experience has been so-so at best. If these guys can pull of a polished user experience then I'm psyched to see what they come up with. I'm actually surprised that nobody has solved this yet.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/2/08 4:27 p.m.

Well, I text more than I call people now. I also sit at my computer all day. If this new company is going to let me text right from my keyboard, i'll check it out. i tried to cut & paste an address to my own phone the other day and doing it from MSN Messenger was a joke.

Posted by Jordan Mitchell at 7/2/08 11:33 p.m.

I met John at a recent CEO event and ended up spending 30+ minutes talking to him. I don't claim to fit into his target market, and don't know much about the market he's in, but he's a very smart dude. I'm sure he'll do just fine.

Posted by seandr at 7/3/08 11:25 p.m.

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