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WhySoSerious

WhySoSerious

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Why do people say MMS is a dead/old technology and that it shouldn't be on the iPhone? These people also rant/rave that "if you want to send a picture, email it!"

Well, can't the same be said for SMS? If you want to send a text message, just email it!

The VAST majority of cell phones out there (honeslty, I think the iPhone is the only one that can't) can do SMS and MMS.

MMS is not dead/old technology....and if you feel it is, then stop sending your peers SMS messages and just email them your verbal conversations (becuase that's basically what you're implying when you say MMS is dead and just email the pic).

Thanks :D

Now, Apple, give us MMS.

***UPDATE***: Sprint and Blackberry have added MMS in their 4.5 OS update......maybe Apple/ATT will follow suit....
 
WhySoSerious said:
Why do people say MMS is a dead/old technology and that it shouldn't be on the iPhone? These people also rant/rave that "if you want to send a picture, email it!"

Well, can't the same be said for SMS? If you want to send a text message, just email it!

The VAST majority of cell phones out there (honeslty, I think the iPhone is the only one that can't) can do SMS and MMS.

MMS is not dead/old technology....and if you feel it is, then stop sending your peers SMS messages and just email them your verbal conversations (becuase that's basically what you're implying when you say MMS is dead and just email the pic).

Thanks :D

Now, Apple, give us MMS.
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wow this topic has been beaten to death many, many (many) times....
 
WhySoSerious said:
my statment said "I think...".....so i could be wrong. feel free to correct me on compairable iphone competitive products.
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Define "compairable" [sic].

Also, your first post said "The VAST majority of cell phones". I'll be disappointed if you now say they need to be smartphones.
 
Sky Blue said:
Because it is.
And it shouldn't
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guess you didn't read the rest of my post. care to counter my points and validate why you feel it's dead? and why SMS should also be considered "dead" as well....and just to email your verbal conversations to peers?

dejo said:
Define "compairable" [sic].

Also, your first post said "The VAST majority of cell phones". I'll be disappointed if you now say they need to be smartphones.
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well, compairable phones would be smartphones or phones that don't fall into the "we give you this free phone when you sign up under our contract plan".

however, i do know that some of those cheap-o phones do handle MMS....
 
WhySoSerious said:
MMS is not dead/old technology....
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No, but it should be. And Apple is trying to kill it.

It's rough now, but in 2 years most cell phones will have e-mail...even ones without $30-a-month data plans.

Once that happens everyone will say "I can't believe we used to pay for text messages!" And the world will be a better place.

But it won't happen until someone takes the plunge. The iPhone volunteered, and I wish it luck.
 
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I want mms though. I did not realize how many people send me pics until I got the iPhone and had to explain how to send to my email now instead of phone. Swirlymms seems too complicated.
 
Small White Car said:
No, but it should be. And Apple is trying to kill it.

It's rough now, but in 2 years most cell phones will have e-mail...even ones without $30-a-month data plans.

Once that happens everyone will say "I can't believe we used to pay for text messages!" And the world will be a better place.

But it won't happen until someone takes the plunge. The iPhone volunteered, and I wish it luck.
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ok, that reply sounds a bit better.

I don't agree that MMS should be dead....since SMS isn't dead. Both MMS and SMS are in the same category....so if MMS dies over email, so should SMS. If Apple is pressing the consumer to EMAIL all the time, then the same philosophy should be to stop using SMS as well and just email your verbal conversations.

However, in the mean time.......since MMS and SMS isn't dead.....and EMAIL isn't prevalent....then, I feel the iPhone should adopt all of these technologies until everyone else catches up.
 
Sky Blue said:
Because it is.
And it shouldn't
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Actually, it's not. I'm 26 and I still receive many MMS messages from friends and family. I tell you what, since my mom and aunt learned how to send those pictures it's become a never-ending stream.

Sky Blue said:
I agree. I don't use SMS. Why pay for it when email is free?
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Really? Because not everybody uses smartphones. That's why.
 
Gix1k said:
I want mms though. I did not realize how many people send me pics until I got the iPhone and had to explain how to send to my email now instead of phone. Swirlymms seems too complicated.
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lol....yes, me too. until i got the iphone, i never realized how much i used MMS.

and along those lines, i never realized how important copy/paste was until i got the iphone, received an MMS from a friend......then had to WRITE down the website pswd to view it.

i wonder....how many of the people that clammor for copy/paste want it so they don't have to write down MMS website pswds??

lol
 
WhySoSerious said:
However, in the mean time.......since MMS and SMS isn't dead.....and EMAIL isn't prevalent....then, I feel the iPhone should adopt all of these technologies until everyone else catches up.
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There won't be any "catching up" if we followed your plan. No one would ever change.

It's a chicken-and-the-egg situation. No one uses e-mail because everyone texts. Phone makers and service providors don't add e-mail because consumers are texting, so why should they?

It will NEVER change until someone put out an annoying phone that doesn't do MMS. That phone will be a PAIN to everyone else, and a pain to the people who use it.

But if it's a popular phone, other people will start saying "hey, I want a phone that does e-mail too. The photos come out better and I'm not paying per message."

Once people start thinking that, other companies will be forced to support e-mail (both by hardware and by service, by which I mean you get e-mail even if you don't pay for web).

Anyway, the point is, you would like things to change but there is no chance they will change until someone acts like a jerk and makes things difficult for everyone. The iPhone is that someone.
 
WhySoSerious said:
lol....yes, me too. until i got the iphone, i never realized how much i used MMS.

and along those lines, i never realized how important copy/paste was until i got the iphone, received an MMS from a friend......then had to WRITE down the website pswd to view it.

i wonder....how many of the people that clammor for copy/paste want it so they don't have to write down MMS website pswds??

lol
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This is why I downloaded Clippy and hClipboard but since you can't copy from a non-editable field, I have no use for them.
 
WhySoSerious said:
lol....yes, me too. until i got the iphone, i never realized how much i used MMS.

and along those lines, i never realized how important copy/paste was until i got the iphone, received an MMS from a friend......then had to WRITE down the website pswd to view it.

i wonder....how may of the people that clammor for copy/paste want it so they don't have to write down MMS website pswds??

lol
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That's what kills me (the password part)

I'm a firefighter/paramedic, and I usually send pictures of cars that have been involved in a traffic collision to the trauma centers, and MMS would be so nice in this situation.
 
Small White Car said:
There won't be any "catching up" if we followed your plan. No one would ever change.

It's a chicken-and-the-egg situation. No one uses e-mail because everyone texts. Phone makers and service providors don't add e-mail because consumers are texting, so why should they?

It will NEVER change until someone put out an annoying phone that doesn't do MMS. That phone will be a PAIN to everyone else, and a pain to the people who use it.

But if it's a popular phone, other people will start saying "hey, I want a phone that does e-mail too. The photos come out better and I'm not paying per message."

That's when everyone else is forced to support e-mail (both by hardware and by service, by which I mean you get e-mail even if you don't pay for web).

Anyway, the point is, you would like things to change but there is no chance they will change until someone acts like a jerk and makes things difficult for everyone. The iPhone is that someone.
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good views. i like chatting with you!
 
Katuls said:
That's what kills me (the password part)

I'm a firefighter/paramedic, and I usually send pictures of cars that have been involved in a traffic collision to the trauma centers, and MMS would be so nice in this situation.
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wouldnt email be better than mms in that situation?
 
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