Comment Honey, another delivery from Amazon just arrived (Score 1) 191
Great - no need to worry, any more, about butt-dialing your phone. Now, with butt-apping (TM-pending), who knows what we'll be able to achieve, or order!
Starting on June 27th, 2015, SMS notifications from Google Calendar will no longer be sent. SMS notifications launched before smartphones were available. Now, in a world with smartphones and notifications, you can get richer, more reliable experience on your mobile device, even offline.
The real question is why this isn't a win-win for their customers anyway?
It's not a win-win for customers unless the price goes down. It may be just a win if there's a reduced likelihood of NSA surveillance, but there's no guarantee of that.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
