Catching up with emails, I saw this email from the Google Calendar team:
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.
Too bad I say. Â SMS notifications is one of the features I use and love the most about the Google Calendar. Â My smartphone is full of all kind notifications. Â In this day and age, it seems, every up considers it it’s duty to add something to the notification bar. Â I’ll never configure each one of those to have a different sound, vibration mode, or LED color. Â I don’t really care about them no more.
The ONLY notification that I care about 24×7, since my sysadmin shift days, is the SMS. Â An SMS wakes me up in the middle of the night. Â An SMS draws my attention in the noisiest of places. Â An SMS interrupts my meetings. Â That’s the one and only instance notification that I respect.
And now, it’s disappearing from the Google Calendar…