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Google Kills Infinite SMS App For iPhone Dead

Posted March 11, 2009 11:00 AM by Tanner Godarzi
Categories: Business Development Google Software 

imageGoogle has recently blocked access to the Infinite SMS App after it used too much traffic.

The third party App tapped in to the Google Talk protocol allowing users to send text messages to any phone free of cost. After rising to popularity, Google noticed the intense rise in traffic, the service was blocked prompting this quote from the developer:

“Google has claimed no grievance with Infinite SMS other than its success. Their given reason for the block isn’t abuse or wrongdoing; it’s that we brought too many users (and thus too much cost) to an experimental service. We never could have guessed that the two of us would write an app too big for Google,”

Unfortunately, users who bought the App will find it no longer works and have lost $0.99. The decision to cut access to the service was quickly made without consideration for the App as the service acted as an API that third party developers could leverage.

Via: Macworld

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  1. I don’t really know what to say other than that’s messed up.  I get that it was too much traffic but that should have been assumed with the ridiculous rates that ATT charges for text messaging.  I call for refund or credit towards something else.  Granted that’s not likely to happen but it doesn’t much surprise me after the crap they pulled with iGoogle for the iPhone.
    http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?fid=6ff62ce418848f690004636b442bb562&hl=en

    Posted by @MeatPlowz on March 11, 2009 1:10 PM

  2. Check out this new app! It still works and it is even better than Infinite SMS because it can send photos and do international texting!

    iText - Free Texting
    From: www.bocosoft.net

     Send and Receive Text Messages (SMS) for FREE
     Send Photo Text Messages (MMS) for FREE
     Domestic and International Texting
    …•SMS: 50 countries with support for more than 300 carriers
    …•MMS: 14 countries with support for more than 33 carriers
    …•Our carrier database is always expanding!
     Built in contact list - remembers carriers
     Landscape Keyboard
     NO LIMIT or rate limit on the number of texts

    Posted by Matt on March 11, 2009 11:38 PM

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