Comments on: Social messaging apps cost mobile companies $14 billion http://www.slashgear.com/social-messaging-apps-cost-mobile-companies-14-billion-21214686/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: cynyr http://www.slashgear.com/social-messaging-apps-cost-mobile-companies-14-billion-21214686/#comment-186738 cynyr Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:41:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=214686#comment-186738 wait, wait, wait… That should read “If you used Google Talk, Facebook Chat, imo, or any other data-based social messaging platform on your phone, congratulations. You helps reduce the potential size of the pockets of mobile providers by nearly $14 billion”

Not paying someone isn’t the same as “reducing” more like not inflating….

]]> By: Max Imus http://www.slashgear.com/social-messaging-apps-cost-mobile-companies-14-billion-21214686/#comment-186424 Max Imus Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=214686#comment-186424 They should make text free already; we’re already paying for data service.

]]> By: Guest http://www.slashgear.com/social-messaging-apps-cost-mobile-companies-14-billion-21214686/#comment-186414 Guest Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:30:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=214686#comment-186414 These numbers don’t really mean much, as it doesn’t show the actual number of texts or minutes of phone calls. Facebook chat is a constantly streaming service over 3G or 4G and is going to take a LOT more data than a text would. Same with Skype, especially depending on if it’s video chat or not. There’s no possible way this has cost $14 billion, as none of those can fully take the place of voice or texts.

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