willheim

There's been quite a hubbub over iMessage basically competing against all the other group messaging apps that have come out recently but I can't help but completely miss the point of it (and other) apps. Am I missing the point that it does not do SMS? Or does it and they don't say that?

Seems to me that the perfect messaging app would be one that does all that the group ones do but also do it via SMS texting. Not everyone has an iPhone/Android/Smart/Feature phone. I believe the SMS market (no stats to prove this) is MUCH bigger and fail to see why no app also does SMS as well. Wait... one does. But it's on Windows Phone Mango. And they also have speak to text.

First a bit of background: I'm a Canadian, living, operating, and incorporated in Canada who will be charging $X/month for my service. Monthly expenses such as hosting are all US based and charged in $USD.

When it comes to charging should I tow the GAP and charge in $USD or go for $CAD? Only advantage to me in charging in $CAD is that I avoid currency fluctuations on the revenue stream as opposed to charging in $USD and converting to $CAD. For those who do not realize it, the $CAD is around $1.04USD right now whereas it has been as low as $0.65USD in the past decade. So as you can see, from a cash-flow management perspective, a bad exchange rate could be quite damaging to the business (OTOH a great exchange rate could be a boon).

To other Canadian operations: What do you do to manage the currency fluctuations?