But seriously - Is 'SMS replacement' even a thing now? I think I only ever chat to my wife via SMS these days because she won't install third party apps on her phone and has no social media accounts. All my friends, colleagues and kids send messages to each other via about 3 different chat apps depending on age (kids) and context.
I don't personally know anybody who still uses SMS to communicate directly with friends or frequent real-world contacts. But I also don't know anybody who still watches real-time broadcast TV with ads. I assume there are still a lot of both out there in the world, however.
Basic landlines are still a thing, and cannot, even in theory, recieve SMS.
This isn't something I ever signed up for explicitly. But maybe it's just my provider?
Oh yeah, LOL, I quite honestly forgot about the existence of those haha
I do recall that my doctors office did offer the option of Snapchat recently, I believe, for appointment alerts. Also, the voice to text thing, I have been thinking of writing my own little app connected to my SIP phone system and Amazon AWS to try and achieve the same thing, just as a little programming exercise.
If I have to be honest, if my SMS was turned off tomorrow, there would be very little impact on my life (as long as I installed Telegram or Snapchat on my wife's phone).
SMS has already been replaced by far more secure and mature apps. It's good to have it there as a primitive option though.
What, which part? Over here SMS is used only as a last resort: interoperability when people aren't using the same set of messaging apps, or no data due to bad network conditions. Everyone is using Messenger (when mutually added), WhatsApp, Telegram, or iMessage, the latter three automatically populating when phone numbers are added to contact lists, which people happily upload.