Redbeard
I was just informing him of it. No need to get weird about it dude.
I'm not, I just want AT&T to stop making us wait for something that they could have flipped the switch on on June 17th!
And you still don't get it. If YOU send it to them from your email YOU don't have to go to AT&Ts stupid web thingy.
I know that. But you've seemingly ignored the reports that many people aren't able to even e-mail people pics that way anymore, nobody on AT&T I know of is getting anything I send them. I'll try it again tonight. And then I don't even know if they've recieved it, with MMS you know they've got it almost instantly.
And when THEY want to send you a pic ,they reply to the MMS they got from you which should drop the pic in your email directly without having to go to the AT&T site.
I know that, but you're counting on people who have about 4 brain cells combined, that's why they are still using dumb phones that can't even e-mail, that they paid more for than the price of an iphone for. People are hard wired to send every pic through MMS, they forget and I get a viewmymessage link
Most people don't know this and they keep talking about smartphones , which is not needed for it. I was just trying to inform people about it , not forcing them not to use MMS.
That's great, but if it doesn't work half the time what is the use?
Besides, I give MMS another year or two before it's completely put behind right next to the record player and VHS tapes.
I don't think that's going to happen for many reasons.
MMS isn't itself a device that can become obsolete, it's a lot easier to do than e-mail (don't need to know the e-mail of the person who you are sending a pic to), and it's much quicker.
If I'm in a SMS convo with a friend, and I tell them I want to show them a pic I took, I have to exit the text app, go to my picture album, select the pics, then e-mail them, wait for the e-mail to send, then wait for my friend to close their text app and go into e-mail and find my message and pic, then go back into the text app to let me know they recieved it.
Seems like a lot of wasted time and a lot of trouble to do something that can be done in one quick and easy step without having to leave the SMS convo, and you have to do this even if both people have iphones. I don't know who decided MMS was some sort of outdated technology that will be replaced by e-mail, in fact, hasn't e-mail been around since 1965? 44 years now? And MMS only since 2002, only 7 years? So it looks to me that MMS is the future, as far as picture sending goes. MMS technology does one thing and it does it well, e-mail is good for e-mail, it works with pics, just not as easily or as fast as MMS