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Originally Posted by Riise
Nonetheless, I prefer the SMS/text option as not everyone has a smart phone and/or data.
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Knowing the time it would take to develop/test/implement something like this, I'd just as soon they not waste their time and money on an SMS option. By the time CT actually rolls it out, damn near everyone will have a data plan.
Kinda like how people 10 years ago would have said "I hope they make it a call-in service and not SMS, because not everyone has an SMS-enabled phone". Once it's on the Internets, it'll be available forever to thousands of apps in the future. SMS-bound, it's just a pain in the ass stuck on the flavour of the month technology.
I've been waiting for realtime, GPS-driven, Internet-available transit scheduling since the mid 90s or so. I even helped prototype one years and years ago (and a second system in 2003), but with the slowness of transit agencies we're JUST staring to see this being discussed seriously. It's about freaking time.