These Apple messages have many advantages over regular text messages.
They're not locked onto your phone, like regular text messages.
And they don't scroll away forever, like regular text messages.
But W.P.A. always allows you to enter regular text, regardless of whose product you use.
In regular text messages and phone conversations, Davis told Thomas, "Let's make history," referring to their comebacks.
He was never that into the main writing projects but has sent us regular text messages and Facebook postings since his release last February.
(Marcie Trier told me that she receives regular text messages from a coach with another college team, which would be an N.C.A.A. violation).
The country's health ministry is sending regular text reminders to young welfare clients urging them to brush their teeth, and asking whether they've brushed today.
Davies sent regular text messages, photos and even videos of his progress to teammates, "to show them not to count me out," he said.
The arrival of live American television coverage of the Tour de France last year has not meant the end of regular text updates from the race on cycling Web sites.
"It's exactly like sending a regular text message like I do with my friends all the time," said Rebecca Minsky, 21, a junior at Cornell University who has been using Campusfood.com since her freshman year.
