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TigerText is an iPhone application which promises to delete text messages from the receiver’s phone after a set period. Billed as a tool for adulterers (classy!), the application kinda works, provided you’re loose enough with your definition of “text message”.

Despite the PR pitches, the application has nothing to do with SMS messages. Instead, TigerText users can send messages to each other using TigerText, and specify a valid period for each message. After this time is up, the message is deleted from the TigerText servers and therefore from both sending and receiving iPhones. You can also choose to have the message vanish as soon as it has been read, in a kind of modern-day Mission Impossible homage.

This is fine for pre-arranged clandestine communications, but has the same problem found with any service like this: the recipient needs to install software. And if they don’t have it, they will get a regular SMS prompting them to install it, a very annoying “feature.”

If you can get friends to sign up, it is at least a cheap SMS alternative. The app is free, and you get 100 messages when you install it (valid for 15 days). After the trial period you can buy 250 messages for $1.50, or pay $2.50 for unlimited texting. Receiving messages is always free, and the application also works fine on the iPod Touch. Now you just need to make sure you never go home with lipstick on your collar

If that's really the stated purpose for the app, then wowwww we are just getting sicker and sicker as a society. It's a brilliant marketing ploy though, a lot of iPhone people will probably buy the app just because of its humorous name to show their friends.

Ehwmatt wrote:If that's really the stated purpose for the app, then wowwww we are just getting sicker and sicker as a society. It's a brilliant marketing ploy though, a lot of iPhone people will probably buy the app just because of its humorous name to show their friends.

Or at least the excuse they use when their friends wonder why they have that app !

Behshad wrote:

Ehwmatt wrote:If that's really the stated purpose for the app, then wowwww we are just getting sicker and sicker as a society. It's a brilliant marketing ploy though, a lot of iPhone people will probably buy the app just because of its humorous name to show their friends.

Or at least the excuse they use when their friends wonder why they have that app !

or both!

Interesting!! What if the person you sent the text mess. to forwards it to someone else?!?!..does this app
hunt that text down like murder for hire?!?!

How lovely.

I just love services that promote ways to lie and cheat on your partner. What the hell is wrong with people?

For the record, I hope everyone that uses Ashley Madison gets an STD.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:How lovely.

I just love services that promote ways to lie and cheat on your partner. What the hell is wrong with people?

For the record, I hope everyone that uses Ashley Madison gets an STD.

What's Ashley Madison?

Ehwmatt wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:How lovely.

I just love services that promote ways to lie and cheat on your partner. What the hell is wrong with people?

For the record, I hope everyone that uses Ashley Madison gets an STD.

What's Ashley Madison?

Ehwmatt wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:How lovely.

I just love services that promote ways to lie and cheat on your partner. What the hell is wrong with people?

For the record, I hope everyone that uses Ashley Madison gets an STD.

What's Ashley Madison?

It's like eHarmony for married people... the purpose of it is so married people can hook up with other married people (because that way, everyone is hiding something and no one is going to rat anyone out). It makes me sick. There are radio ads for this all the time - and I'm pretty sure I've seen a TV ad or two.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Ehwmatt wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:How lovely.

I just love services that promote ways to lie and cheat on your partner. What the hell is wrong with people?

For the record, I hope everyone that uses Ashley Madison gets an STD.

What's Ashley Madison?

It's like eHarmony for married people... the purpose of it is so married people can hook up with other married people (because that way, everyone is hiding something and no one is going to rat anyone out). It makes me sick. There are radio ads for this all the time - and I'm pretty sure I've seen a TV ad or two.

Wow, that is sick.