I don’t have a problem with them charging for their service, it is just that the interface doesn’t delineate what services are included with your specific plan. For example, with the basic plan it asks for contacts and gives you an email link, but it won’t let you email the message. It would have been nice if they disabled those buttons to begin with.

-m

And I do speak with an accept (now much less pronounced than “tho tho” – I do not know what that is) and it does an super job of translating it.

Sean

“Hie Venkatrama plleasse koll me at thish nombor fife fife sis sis tho tho” can it translate it ?

Jokes apart I have used it and it is useful (I dont use it all the time) its like Twitter; its not for everyone.

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Is your DVD rental free and ad-supported, your car rental, your mobile phone subscription, your copy of photoshop? Why should mature web services be different?

I’ve never heard of Jott before, I’m just saying, all the naysayers are way too used to startups with VC funding that don’t even try to become a profitable business and give the illusion that slapping a few ads is a long-term viable revenue plan.

I say props to them for not raising ridiculous amounts of money and staying forever in a “we’ll figure out how to make money later” state of mind.

Look at twitter and how they’ve just cut off the SMS notification for us Europeans. With IM notification not fixed either, twitter has now become pretty useless. And why is that? Maybe they should have figured out a revenue model before spending all that VC money on bulk SMS bills they didn’t even try to negotiate.

Nope — basic won’t email you, you’ll need to visit their website.

I’ve loved the service, am one of the happy 420k users, but I think they’re making a bad business move by so severely crippling the free option.

My two cents

Alan

GCal and Voice to Email are not included in Basic service.

Now, I’m looking for an alternative.

I’m sure there are many people who will use Jott often enough to justify the expense. I only use Jott periodically; not enough for me to upgrade at this point. There are a few alternative free services out there anyway.

The Jott for Outlook addon looks interesting and may be worth the money for me. I won’t have to remember to enter a doctor’s appointment in my calendar when I get home. I can call Jott and put it in instantly.