I agree. IMO, Charlie Rose is probably the best all-around interviewer today and to be featured on his show at such a young age is quite an achievement.
It's hard to believe that some carriers actually wanted an exclusivity agreement. It's like they didn't think it through at all. I'm glad Loopt was able to convince them otherwise. That must have been a great feeling, to have changed someone's mind in a high level corporate type of way.
Back when this was posted, I said what you did, that putting him on a list with Paul Bucheit and Steve Jobs was mental, but then I've never really understood the Loopt hype and it was one of the worse Paul Graham articles anyway. The fact that Sam's made it here is still pretty damn impressive.
Awesome interview, congrats!! Sam definitely has the substance, he's just getting started.
While the trend with voice may be falling, I actually hate email/txt a lot of times (at least via the phone). I much rather have a phone call and make a decision quickly, rather than going back and forth. Texting annoys me, maybe I'm alone with that opinion.
just my opinion but text is popular because you don't have to make those decisions quickly. it lets you communicate with less exposure.
if you don't know how to reply to a certain statement, you have time to think it over or not reply at all where with voice if you do not reply, the other side will have an easier time pressuring you into it.
It's a temporary warp in userspace. Text is like going backward from broadband to a 1400 baud modem. Voice communicates so much more. So that will change as the user base ages. Seen many skateboards lately?
Sam, did you also get a life-time achievement award on your first birthday? some folks had to save humanity, a few times, before they could be on Charlie Rose :-P Congrats!
Charlie Rose is such a drooling moron. It's no wonder he's a popular talkshow host, as he must make the idiots that watch him feel they're not so stupid after all.
"The average US teenager sends almost 2,000 text messages per month." wow..