IMessage spam message: Single 3 points in the touch of mass

Editor's note: Many people will be harassed by spam messages, and the iOS user's imessage system will naturally be doomed to the same fate. Recently, some people through the "disguise" and mass spam manufacturers have a series of "communication." From that, we see some of the inside of this grey industry chain. (Hanyang) Wen/Achan (Product Watcher, Geek Park author) believes that people who use iOS devices and open imessage have received spam messages sent through imessage, just like you, as ordinary individuals, I am very tired of these messages. However, as a practitioner of the internet industry, I have always been curious about the imessage information. Not long ago, with two to do imessage information Group of manufacturers chatted, the first is to do earlier manufacturers A, the second is not to do the bulk of Beijing information manufacturers B. The former I pretended to be a café boss and contact with him, and let him send a mass of 2,500 imessage text messages, the latter said not to do the information in Beijing mass is because, afraid of being peer scold miserably. 1, the price from 3 cents-1 cents 6. The screenshot below is a quote from manufacturer A to me, you can see that the cheapest price is 1 cents, the most expensive 1 cents 6. and manufacturer B told me that they are the cheapest for customers to do 3 cents a piece. General SMS Mass is probably also 1 cents, then, 3 cents a piece of imessage mass information, how much can earn? In fact, for these mass information manufacturers, the cost is very low, can be roughly so calculated: Buy 500 second-hand ipod touch as a mass equipment, according to 500 yuan per unit to calculate the cost of 25000 yuan. With servers, electricity and some human costs, it is estimated that 50,000 of start-up funds are sufficient. Manufacturer B told me that the general mass advertising owners are 100,000 to buy. According to 3 cents, that is, 3000 yuan. As long as you get 17 lists, the start-up cost comes back. 2, hundreds of thousands of ipod touch mass information manufacturer B told me that they bought about 500 ipod touch for mass information. If they send 1 million messages a day, two messages for the same device are sent at intervals of about 5 seconds, and each device works at full speed for about 2.7 hours per day. 2.7 Hours is not much, so it seems that the company B per day mass messages may be more than 1 million, or they will not have to buy 500 devices. and vendor B is not the current largest imessage information, so it is likely to be like the manufacturer A "big manufacturers" day sent more than 1 million, went straight to 5 million. 3, manufacturers fragmented, since the bulk of the scanning program manufacturer B said that there is no outflow or specialized sales of the scanning and mass programs, these procedures are written by each manufacturer. As I understand it, these procedures are not complicated. 4,Why not use the computer to mass? In fact, the computer sent more efficient, why not use the computer to mass? One is to take into account the cost, the second is that if the Apple seal equipment, the computer was sealed to bring greater losses. 5, after the year may not have earned the Apple has been in the seal imessage information mass equipment, yes, is the equipment, not the account. This is almost fatal, because the account can be casually registered, and the device ID is blocked, which means that the device is scrapped. Manufacturer B and I would probably forget that an ipod touch just sends 17,000 messages, which is about 24 hours at full speed, and the cost comes back. At this point, if Apple sealed the equipment, they will not have too much loss, of course, there is no profit. However, the Apple blockade is becoming more and more strict, manufacturer B said, "The mass of junk information can only be made some money this year, next year, the estimated Apple more severe, will not be sufficient." 6, perhaps through a combination with CRM, said that he also hated junk text messages, in addition to the work because this year can earn some income, more, is want to imessage information system and CRM system together. In general, customers in the Enterprise CRM, the information sent to the enterprise is not exclusive, and the enterprise may also need a lower price (compared to the ordinary SMS 1 cents price) of the information mass tool. However, the letter "I" limits the likelihood of a combination of a mass system and a CRM, as the mass message is intended only for iOS users.