Analyze your SMS usage before and after iOS5.

I have a friend who has never texted in his life (too old, saw no use for it). Now I get a handful of those free iMessages a day from his iPad.

If iChat becomes iMessage aware that would be something.

 

Mine dropped significantly, as expected. I have lots of friends with iOS devices, and it seems that most have upgraded to iMessage. So my official SMS count has dropped significantly.

I am probably going to cancel my SMS services next month as I see no need for them, apart from a few friends who I text regularly and have yet to get iMessage.

Btw, I didn't realize it until a week ago, but you can iMessage people anywhere in the world... for free. That is truly remarkable, as I am now texting my cousins and friends overseas who I had never texted before due to outrageous texting fees. This has brought us all closer together in less than a week's worth of texting. Truly remarkable!

 

Mine dropped significantly as well. I'd usually be at around 1,000 texts around this time in my billing cycle pre-iOS 5, now it's around 400. Really enjoying iMessage so far but am sometimes having issues with slow upload speeds for photos on wifi

 

I think I almost exclusively use iMessage now or Whatsapp.

Which is kinda funny, because my plan now comes with unlimited texting

 

Aug. 23-Sept. 22 - 7069
Sept. 23-Oct. 22 - 3632

I have 14 days left in my current month and I'm at 538.

 

yeah i went from like 4000 to 2000. My close friends and girlfriend are all running iOS 5 though. lol

 

Anyone noticing the people without iDevices getting tons of text messages from never ending group messages?
My iPhone has been blowing up with an enormous amount of replies to group messages.

 

My SMS use dropped but my actual texting/messaging is up because I'm messaging more people with iMessage.