In the mix...
There are a lot of Jabber services around, but one that caught my eye was MXit, a South African company that are selling their service as a replacement for SMS. I've tried Trillian and basically abandoned it - didn't work out of the box!
Bonus is that it has presence too. MXit recently switched from jabberd2 to ejabberd, which seems to be a jabbering trend.
They have around 1/3 million users and their client software works primarily on Nokia, but some others too. 3G or GPRS.
Mix in a little libjingle and Santa could come very early to South Africa!
I really must get a new Nokia phone and try this thing out. I get the feeling though, that when something takes off like this, it's generally well packaged.
The old saying about 'one satisfied customer, leads to 20 more, and one disatisfied customer means 20 closed doors' seems to particularly hold true in the free, downloadable software market.
It's about time that SMS services were shown for what they are.
More later.
1 Comments:
hi there,i like many other south africans is currently on Mxit too.one thing for sure mxit is like an addictive virus spreading through the entire south africa amongst both the youth and adults,i found it absolutely amazing how quickly mxit is overtaking peoples life in each and evry aspect!! but unfortunately I must say if mxit ever shuts down,no doubt, therell be chaos!!
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