Mxit has had its run, when smart phones came out it fell behing quickly. When blackberry hit big they took waaay too long to make it compatible and then they went and released mxit 6, something many users just hated, it had become bloated and lost a lot of its simplicity.
With bbm, whatsapp, liveprofile, kik and the like mxit has lost a lot of users. All these devices support near instant push notifications and the above apps are probably as compatible as mxit when you consider that majority of users are on smart phones, mxits only real dominence remains with j2me handsets and those wont be long for this world.
People want simplification and cost saving. Their was a time when mxit was the only solution, but last I heard it still had no push support which means u actually have to open and actively run it to communicate, and with it constantly polling it uses more batter and more money than the push alternatives.
When something like whatsapp supports android, iphone, berry, symbian and soon winphone what is milxits selling point when it requires more effort to stay in touch.
I used to be on mxit almost all day, had a lot of friends the same, within a month of getting smart phones it became pointless to use it, every contact was either on bbm or wa or both, it became pointless to use mxit at that point.
Mxits only saving grace would of been to include full push support probably a year ago, even doing it now would be too late, the users they would of lost to bbm and what's app are unlikely to return and as users upgrade from j2me to smart they will have less and less need for last generations communication tools.
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