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Sick of ATT picture messaging
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It sounds like you're 14, since you lack the ability to see how other people might find something useful, despite the fact that you don't.
How can it be useful to get a badly taken picture where you cannot see half of what's on it?
It's impossible for a normal person to find that useful, it never been useful. Just that when you were 14 it was "cool".
Make sure the viewmymessage website is set to not block popups, fixed my inability to view photos, and sometimes I have to use safari and not firefox.
At the end of the day it is a nice feature to have. If one of my friends takes a quick snap on their phone but is not that important then why should they have to try and send it to their computer and then send me an email. If you don't use the feature, then fine, but a lot of people do. Most of my friends are mid to late 20s and definitely not 14. The 14 year olds open those stupid editors first and put hearts around the picture or something first like they have on SE phones and then they send it
.It is funny. At MacWorld 07 people literally cheered when Steve Jobs pointed out the 2MP camera. Then afters people were asking why it couldn't have more? I love Apple products as much as the next guy, but some people are just way too obsessed about everything Apple. The iPhone is great, but far from perfect.
At the end of the day it is a nice feature to have. If one of my friends takes a quick snap on their phone but is not that important then why should they have to try and send it to their computer and then send me an email. If you don't use the feature, then fine, but a lot of people do. Most of my friends are mid to late 20s and definitely not 14. The 14 year olds open those stupid editors first and put hearts around the picture or something first like they have on SE phones and then they send it
It is funny. At MacWorld 07 people literally cheered when Steve Jobs pointed out the 2MP camera. Then afters people were asking why it couldn't have more? I love Apple products as much as the next guy, but some people are just way too obsessed about everything Apple. The iPhone is great, but far from perfect.
Yeah it's far from perfect, but theres a million features more important and useful than MMS. But you don't see bitch threads about them, and that's what's annoying.
I'm 30 years-old. My brother and I were texting a couple of nights ago and he had something on his skin to run by me. It would have been nice if he could have just sent me the picture while texting, instead of him having to close SMS, open e-mail, send it to me, then have me quit the texting program and then open my e-mail to view it, then to have me open my SMS again to responde to him.
Saying MMS is childish is being childish.
Well, that's just your opinion. Remember, all iPhone users are different and have different needs and desires. Additionally, don't forget that its just a phone. I wouldn't need my phone to do those other "million features," I have my desktop for that.
Funny, after viewing this thread all day yesterday I got a viewmymessage text last night. Clicked on the link and the server was down or something because it couldnt connect. Other pages worked fine.
I almost burst out laughing when I read this in class! Maybe I shouldn't read MR when I should be taking notes. Oh well, great post.
You make going from texting on the iPhone to e-mail sound like an arduous task. How long did it take you to hit like 5 touch screen buttons? If you find the iPhone such a chore to use, don't. The idea is it's simple to go from one app to the next and thats the functional genius of the iPhone, if you struggle with this, don't blame the lack of a feature which is already hotly debated. I don't mean to flame you or insult you at all, but I think you're being a little dramatic.
Furthermore, if you have a phone for just a phone and you have a desktop for that stuff, why did you buy an iPhone? Why not just get a free Nokia from AT&T that will allow you to make phone calls? Why did this conversation not take place on an instant messenger program where it would have been simple to open your e-mail in a browser and view the picture? Don't complain about the lack of a feature on your iPhone and then discuss how hard it was to switch apps, and then end with saying you don't need it to do any of these things, that's somewhat contradictory.
Whatever did we do in life before we had picture messaging on our phones?
I dont know anybody that has said they would like to see it die. And when i tell them i dont have the MMS capabilities to send a picture message their jaw hits the ground and they say " on the iPhone you cant do that"?
So keep justifying your purchase of your iPhone all you want( as you should) and how you dont need this or think it is silly that others would want this function, but you are in the minority.
I think MMS picture message serves many purposes and i am far from some teenager.
At the end of the day it is a nice feature to have. If one of my friends takes a quick snap on their phone but is not that important then why should they have to try and send it to their computer and then send me an email. If you don't use the feature, then fine, but a lot of people do. Most of my friends are mid to late 20s and definitely not 14. The 14 year olds open those stupid editors first and put hearts around the picture or something first like they have on SE phones and then they send it
It is funny. At MacWorld 07 people literally cheered when Steve Jobs pointed out the 2MP camera. Then afters people were asking why it couldn't have more? I love Apple products as much as the next guy, but some people are just way too obsessed about everything Apple. The iPhone is great, but far from perfect.
Eaxctly and if it werent for me being able to jailbreak my iPhone, i would sell it and get a Blackberry Curve/Bold because it is a good phone that also does many things plus it has MMS included along with it.
Just installed swirlyMMS . You get a 2 week trial and then have to buy it for $8 if you want to keep it.
We'll see how it goes.
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Well got it to work, but it wont delete anything in my inbox. I read how to but it wont delete them <sigh>
It may sound dramatic, but it's the truth. I didn't make those steps up. And isn't Apple all about making a smooth, highly integrated experience? Why do 4-5 steps when you could do 1? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of technology - to make our life more efficient?
My post was far from contradictory. There are some features on the iPhone that lend themselves particularly well to the portable format; the iPod, a camera, the SMS, the phone function, the GPS, e-mail (MMS would also fall into this category if it existed on the iPhone). I bought the iPhone mainly because it has these functions and usually performs them very well. I certainly would not be walking around with my desktop in order to be able to use these functions. As for all those other "million functions" Davidkoh was desiring instead of MMS, I'm guessing many of those would be best performed on a desktop.
Considering the fact that the site uses Flash to display the image, it wouldn't do you a damn bit of good.
Not to get off topic to much, but the so called "genius" at the apple store told me that it's not apple that won't let mms but AT&T. Just wonder how true this is.
That explanation stinks more than the feces of a dead goat. Why would ATT allow mms on other phones but not on it's flagship device.
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