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Sick of ATT picture messaging

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rotobadger said:
I'm also tired of the solution to just use the phone number and carrier name with your email instead. Why can't people (and Apple) understand I can't force OTHER people to NOT send me MMS! If you have, say, roughly 25 people you stay in contact with via text messaging, is it reasonable to have to explain to EACH person why they need to send you email rather than text? Even though they may not understand why EVERYONE else they text doesn't need to make this request?
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I blocked MMS on my account, so you CAN force people not send you pictures.
 
Just do what everyone i know does including myself. If someone sends you a MMS tell them to grow up and stop sending silly little pictures like teenagers and take the time to write you a proper email or letter and if the still want to send silly little pictures they can include them as attachments.
 
If people can't email me the pic, guess it was not really important... I got better things to do then trying to see whats on that blurry phonecam picture.
 
Megalobyte said:
Viewmymessage isn't that hard people, you just copy and past the id/password into...oh, wait...
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The entire Viewmymessage.com text notification is removed on the 3g plan. If someone sends you a MMS message, you'll never even know about it until that person asks you why you never responded.:mad:
 
Davidkoh said:
If people can't email me the pic, guess it was not really important... I got better things to do then trying to see whats on that blurry phonecam picture.
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..and on the iphone before 2.0 you couldnt delete multiple emails, i guess that wasnt important to you either. So, until apple tells you that you need it, you dont need it right.
 
babyjenniferLB said:
Just do what everyone i know does including myself. If someone sends you a MMS tell them to grow up and stop sending silly little pictures like teenagers and take the time to write you a proper email or letter and if the still want to send silly little pictures they can include them as attachments.
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that's not really practical, is it? not everyone has a smartphone capable of sending emails. if everyone had a smartphone, this wouldn't really be an issue, would it? everyone would just send emails and that would be that.

so, lets take a silly example thats also practical and realistic (and probable now that it is time for holiday shopping). I'm with my sister shopping for my parents (oh, and I'm not a silly little teenager), and we decide to split up. she shops for mom, i shop for dad. She finds something, and would like to send me a picture to see if I think she'd like it. She has an old moto razr. should she compose an email? or maybe she can use a 35mm camera, take a pic, develop the film, write me a letter and include the photo. Maybe i'll get it by Christmas...

that's not too far fetched. How often do I get MMS? maybe once or twice a month (since i got an iPhone. when i had a BB i got them almost a few times a week) Is this a huge issue to me? No, not really. But I can absolutely agree with those that want MMS, and I understand why.
 
eplchamps0304 said:
..and on the iphone before 2.0 you couldnt delete multiple emails, i guess that wasnt important to you either. So, until apple tells you that you need it, you dont need it right.
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That was actually something the email client was lacking before 2.0.
 
greggov said:
She finds something, and would like to send me a picture to see if I think she'd like it. She has an old moto razr. should she compose an email? or maybe she can use a 35mm camera, take a pic, develop the film, write me a letter and include the photo. Maybe i'll get it by Christmas...
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LOL :D

Yes the fact is a lot of people still use MMS and there is no fighting that. I receive a picture message about once a month and I can view it at the O2 website and then save it to the phone but it is awkward and annoying and there is no way of sending an MMS back unless it is in some roundabout way.

The only reason I can think of, is that Apple doesn't want it to mess up their conversation SMS view, or they are trying to get people to use email. Eitherway, it is a basic feature that should be included and calling it a thing only stupid little teenagers do is extremely short sighted.
 
greggov said:
that's not really practical, is it? not everyone has a smartphone capable of sending emails. if everyone had a smartphone, this wouldn't really be an issue, would it? everyone would just send emails and that would be that.

so, lets take a silly example thats also practical and realistic (and probable now that it is time for holiday shopping). I'm with my sister shopping for my parents (oh, and I'm not a silly little teenager), and we decide to split up. she shops for mom, i shop for dad. She finds something, and would like to send me a picture to see if I think she'd like it. She has an old moto razr. should she compose an email? or maybe she can use a 35mm camera, take a pic, develop the film, write me a letter and include the photo. Maybe i'll get it by Christmas...

that's not too far fetched. How often do I get MMS? maybe once or twice a month (since i got an iPhone. when i had a BB i got them almost a few times a week) Is this a huge issue to me? No, not really. But I can absolutely agree with those that want MMS, and I understand why.
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Or instead of all that nonsense you just meet with your sister show each other what you plan to buy rather than waste the 50p or more sending a MMS.

Point being for every person that wants MMS there will be many more that would rather see it die.
 
babyjenniferLB said:
Or instead of all that nonsense you just meet with your sister show each other what you plan to buy rather than waste the 50p or more sending a MMS.
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MMS is quicker than always having to meet up. There are other uses such as my friend sent me a picture of his new car or occasionally I get pictures from my girlfriend :p
 
MMS is not going anywhere soon. MMS and email are totally different and have different uses. Its just the same way email and text messaging are different. MMS is more for the person recieving it to view it immidiately and even respond.
 
~Phi said:
The entire Viewmymessage.com text notification is removed on the 3g plan. If someone sends you a MMS message, you'll never even know about it until that person asks you why you never responded.:mad:
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This isn't true. I have a 3G plan and receive the MMS message. I go to viewmymessage.com and see the picture. The site hasn't been working well lately but I still receive the notification.
 
slashjunior said:
Yes the fact is a lot of people still use MMS and there is no fighting that. I receive a picture message about once a month and I can view it at the O2 website and then save it to the phone but it is awkward and annoying and there is no way of sending an MMS back unless it is in some roundabout way.
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Watch out, there are some people on here that will try to convince you that MMS is "dead," MMS is "obsolete," or your just too simple/ignorant to appreciate the technological revolution Steve Jobs is allowing us to witness. But seriously, MMS is just as alive as its user and until something comes around to replace it (not e-mail, this technology is truly the old one of the two), I will still want to use it.

slashjunior said:
The only reason I can think of, is that Apple doesn't want it to mess up their conversation SMS view, or they are trying to get people to use email.
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It likely has to do with the stability of the OS. Getting a picture would likely crash the SMS app. When you analyze any of Apple's decisions, you usually have to think about financial gain first, technological innovation second. But, in this case, I don't see how implementing MMS would cut into Apple's profits. I could see it as an AT&T issue, but they already have a lot of other phones that support MMS. And besides, the AT&T is not the only iPhone carrier.
 
Metsfan7450 said:
This isn't true. I have a 3G plan and receive the MMS message. I go to viewmymessage.com and see the picture. The site hasn't been working well lately but I still receive the notification.
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There is also Quip and Flutter. Flutter has been working well for me lately.
 
kas23 said:
I totally see your point. But, like you said yourself, it's likely from being an admin. I just find it frustrating that Apple is withholding a feature that is highly popular. If they revealed their reasons, I think people would shut up about it. It's the silence on the subject that is killing me. If they came out and told us; "hey, we're trying to implement it, but it's making the OS too unstable," then I think people would pipe down a bit and be patient.

It's just that people are becoming a little distrusting of Apple lately. We read about App rejections and Apple saying stuff like "this app you submitted duplicates functionality" and we scratch our heads. How can an app be rejected for duplicating functionality when they allow like 10 weather apps? And what about all the clock apps? The native OS already has a clock and a weather app. And there are other examples.

I just don't know what to believe with Apple anymore. I understand Apple is a corporation and they are in the business to make large profits, but it seems like ALL decisions are purely based on maximizing the bottom line instead of consumer desires.

I don't even think Microsoft is this bad. Suppose Microsoft and Apple were switched. Do your think that Apple would have made their version of MS Office to be compatible with Windows? Not in a million years. I believe Microsoft lost a lot of customers due to this. People say; "I can use MS Office on a Mac? OK, I'll just get a Mac then." So, due to this, people buy Macs instead. The way Apple is run, they would have never ported their software for Windows. As for iTunes running on Windows? Again, purely for Apple's financial gain.
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LOL you must be joking if you think Apple is anymore greedy than Microsoft, I suggest you go and read into how corporations work.
 
kas23 said:
Watch out, there are some people on here that will try to convince you that MMS is "dead," MMS is "obsolete," or your just too simple/ignorant to appreciate the technological revolution Steve Jobs is allowing us to witness.
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These people would be saying the same thing if the iPhone lacked SMS, and we were expected to just use e-mail for that too. :rolleyes:

People like to joke about how Steve Jobs says that he knows what's good for us and we don't, but these fanboys actually agree with that thinking.
 
Jeremy W said:
These people would be saying the same thing if the iPhone lacked SMS, and we were expected to just use e-mail for that too. :rolleyes:

People like to joke about how Steve Jobs says that he knows what's good for us and we don't, but these fanboys actually agree with that thinking.
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Yeah fanboys, whats the point of sms when you can just email the message. I remember when Jobs announced the iphone 3g. He mentioned deleting multiple emails as one of the new features, and the crowd went wild. They were standing, screaming and clapping. What a bunch of morons.
 
cWeems said:
MMS is an old feature for people w/ non-PDAs, u shouldnt be friends with people that dont have a PDA device!!! :mad: lol
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Ummm, it has nothing to do with non-PDA vs. PDA, unless you consider the iPhone to be the only PDA. Because all of the other PDA devices (Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian, Android) support MMS. All of them.
 
If you want MMS, email Apple. Keep sending feedback and get all your friends to do it. Starting yet another MMS thread accomplishes nothing except starting an argument.
 
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never liked it and never used so i could give a rats butt.. also if i can show my dad how to send me one with putting in the whole phone number then @mms.att.net or whatever it is then anyone can do it.. it shows up in my emails inbox but to each their own the phone is bad ass. I also never used picture texting so ya.. i don't care but there is nothing else better to do at work so i am reading another one of these threads1
 
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