Comments on: MMS for iPhone? It’s Already Here, Says Mobispine

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:13:28 +0000

Sorry to disapoint but it’s not apple that sucks. It’s the carrier AT&T
iPhone is mms ready. Says it on the how to turn it on. Unfortunitely AT&T doesn’t let you. $100 a month for crap service is awesome.

By: Phuong

Phuong — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:10:03 +0000

HECK NO!!!!! im already paying for unlimited messaging y would i have to pay more for that!!!!!

By: Tai

Tai — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:38:28 +0000

Some people can’t understand Apple’s way of thinking in refusing to implement MMS. It’s clear that their way of thinking is this. “If people keep buying the iPhone, why bother lifting a single finger to give them MMS…or cut/paste or anything else we don’t feel like?”

Apple, I will never buy another one of your products again…EVER.

Their arrogance astounds me. They claim to be the best but they leave out MMS and a zillion other basic features out of their “cutting-edge” phone that zillions of their customers are begging for? Unbelievable…

I’m gone for life Apple…I hate you.

By: Pete Frazier again

Pete Frazier again — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:09:43 +0000

Me – Early adopter, techno geek, into the latest and best technologies.
Cro-Magnan – Utterly non technical, just discovered fire, owns a rotary-dial cell phone.

A recent conversation….
Cro-Magnan: U get cool pic me just send to phone?
Me: No, I have an iPhone, it doesn’t get MMS’s
Cro-Magnan: What is MMS? I no get note say u can’t get pic.
Me: Uh, yea…it doesn’t tell you I couldn’t get it, it just never gets delivered.
Cro-Magnan: Ugh! Why U pay 400 rocks and 40 rocks a month for iPhone then?
Me: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

By: Pete Frazier

Pete Frazier — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:19:52 +0000

Why the hell doesn’t ATT detect inbound text messages as MMS and re-route them to email???? Really couldn’t be all that difficult. Seems like they could package a dedicated email address with an application interface smilar to FetchMMS to route outbound MMS messages via the recipient’s carrier-specific phone email address. This would effectively bypass Apple’s moronic no MMS stance.
The iPhone is an amazing, break-thru device, the kind that really fosters fundamental change. It’s facinating to me that the iPhone’s greatest strength AND biggest limitation are both that it is produced by Apple. Without Apple’s cult following, the App store would just be a handfull of crummy games costing $9.99ea. yet it’s Apple’s inane business policies that keep it from becoming truly great, much as they have relegated Apple’s computer products to a few select niche markets.

By: RYAN

RYAN — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:59:52 +0000

When I received a text from my very attractive girlfriend who is out with her friends that says “did u get the pic I just sent you? we’re naked!” I was a little disappointed to say the least. that’s it…I want MMS

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:28:29 +0000

If AT&T will just allow MMS on our accounts, I wouldn’t need this app. Then I could finally get SwirlyMMS to work and everything would be GREAT! Although I’d prefer having an MMS app directly from Apple, I’m not sure if that’s going to happen (or at least any time soon). SwirlyMMS is the next best thing, if I could just get it working. :(

By: dumbfounded

dumbfounded — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:06:41 +0000

Absolutely ridiculous that apple prevents AT&T from providing this service. This is why I am not a MAC user. Someone wrote somewhere. “Would you buy a Dell PC if you could only install Dell software on it?” A great question in my opinion.
The functionality already exists. As SwirlyMMS users have found out with AT&T adding net media usage to their plans…. But the cat’s out of the bag and AT&T are now not adding it to customer’s plans for fear of their breach of contract with Apple.
And so we have to wait for a compnay like Mobispone to go through the “approval” process with Apple to have an app in their limited and restrictive “Store”.
Well ok.. We can wait….. BUT if they have the &*lls to try and charge us for this application do they have any concept of how much the makers of Blackberry, Treo and others are going to thank them?

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By: Lou

Lou — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:04:58 +0000

When it comes to customer service, I’ve always believed in giving customers what they want. Not what you THINK they want, or SHOULD want. I completely agree with #45 bob that iphone is, “primarily a gadget device that has an inferior phone attached.” When I got my first picture text, imagine my surprise when I was told to retrieve it at viewmymessage.com, which is akin to a virtual hell. I can’t believe that crappy service even exists, let alone is affiliated with an Apple product! And the legions of Steve Jobs-worshipping Apple fanbois who insist that MMS technology is “inferior” to email don’t get the point. I love that my iphone makes it easy to access my email. I HATE that my iphone doesn’t give me the option to choose MMS. And while including the provider-appropriate domain(@mms.att.com, for example) is ok for a few people you regularly contact, but unrealistic for the dozens of people on my contact list who I don’t regularly contact, but like to keep in touch with from time to time. The iphone does not afford me with the sponteneity to easily receive an MMS from some old Army buddy (who has a phone with MMS) who I haven’t heard from in forever, who randomly sends me a picture to break the ice of 2 years without contact. Instead, I would receive a text prompting me to “viewmymessage”, then I would have to text my friend back and ask him to email it to me. And sometimes, someone just sees something they want to share RIGHT NOW. In this fast-paced world, is it really too much to ask Apple to provide an application that so many people want, and is easily within the reach of their technology? To paraphrase what I said earlier, “Don’t give customers what you think they want, or what they should want. Just give them what they want. Any questions, comments, or snide remarks can be sent to itsalljuststuff@mac.com. Peace

By: jj

jj — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:53:58 +0000

YES! I think iphone should have MMS sending and receiving capability, but NO, we shouldn’t pay for it, it’s such a basic and standard feature in the cheapest of cell phones. The iphone should have carried this from the beginning. I was shocked to find out after I bought it that MMS was not part of it, and the salespeople don’t mention such basic things, even when I asked is there anything the iphone doesn’t do that a regular cell phone does.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:59:20 +0000

Lets call it like it is.
This is a tragedy and a disgrace. My phone 2 upgrades ago (4 yrs) could send, receive and forward pix msg free up to my limit. I agree with the other posts on lacking other basic functions too. I know Apple is all about keeping it simple and that fine on the gui but there should always be available options in the settings. I actually didn’t research this glaring omission, because I ‘assumed’ that the iphone would support mms technology, imagine my surprise. This could actually be a deal breaker for me, not because I use pix messaging all the time, but I do sometimes. and why shouldn’t I have the ability to do so on the supposed top of the line phone on the market.
And thank you but I don’t want to hear how great and superior the email photo option is. Its not superior when it comes to convenience, or being compliant with the other 95% of the mobile phone wielding public. Workarounds are a pita, and why should I use software to correct a problem Apple should have built in?
Its not like you can only have one or the other here–email photo or mms. So whats the problem. This is like saying well bluetooth is ’superior’ to the corded head phones so the iphone won’t have a head phone jack, so sorry.
My take on the iphone has changed and not for the better. At first I got it as a phone that would have some cool gadgets to go along with it….now its primarily a gadget device that has an inferior phone attached. :/
Utterly horrendous

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:28:56 +0000

Oh and we can land planes in the Hudson, bailout the banks and let them throw 100thousand $ parties, or spend a million redecorateing their office. But apple and at&t can’t put MMS on the supposed best high quailty phone on the market where’s this world headed. Pluto?

By: Kelso

Kelso — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:15:26 +0000

I agree. What was apple thinking not putting a MMS service on their phone. Not everyone can afford an iPhone so the sending it via email just doesn’t cut it. Don’t get me wrong I’ve only had my iPhone a few weeks and I love it, but it dose get anoying when my little sisters phone that doesn’t have email, is a go phone, and dies on her almost daily has the MMS capability. So I say the sooner the better for iPhone. I know of atleast 10 people who want the iPhone but are waiting on the MMS software to be there so the can send and revive MMS. AND NO!!!! I SHOULD NOT AND WILL NOT PAY EXTRA TO USE WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE FROM THE START!!!!! $30 a month for Internet and text and then more $ for MMS. NO ¥£€% way!

By: paulie140

paulie140 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:33:32 +0000

Another ridiculous omission from Apple through both generations of the iphone.

But wait, they will likely announce the addition of MMS in the 3rd addition and get huge praise and wild applause from the MacWorld Expo for doing what should have been done from the start. Oh, and video? It’s capable, but blocked? Another rabbit up the sleeve I suppose. Why else would anyone buy the “new” iphone?

Ridiculous is the only word that comes to mind.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:15:59 +0000

Lol! This is crazy! Sure we can send an mms if we know what carrier all 100 people we text have. Or we can use an app to shortcut that process. But to receive them they need to be sent to our email. No one knows my personal email because its for business only. And my fiance and both got this phone but the shortcut doesnt work with our phones only with non iphone users! I have already been told by my brother “hey dont send me pics like that i dont have free internet”! But mms is included in his text mess package! Hope someone makes an app that works the right way!

By: IMPISSED

IMPISSED — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:51:00 +0000

I just bought an iphone 2 days ago, i WAS using a crappy, almost generic local cellular service which had UNLIMITED EVERYTHING including mms on a piece of crap flip phone. I now have “the best” phone and cannot do what my old phone did?! RETARDED

By: joe

joe — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:24:02 +0000

I completely hate the fact that i can’t get text pictures or video without going to the viewmymessage webpage. This webpage doesn’t always work properly, it’s tedious and frustrating. This is the single worst feature of this phone/service. When can customers like me look forward to normal text mms like every other phone/service on the planet? While all my cool Blackberry and LG friends are looking at their pictures, laughing and replying, I am lost like a complete a-hole, searching for a computer to log into so I can go type in http://www.viewmymessage.com/2, the worst web page ever created, and pray i get the archaic message id and password right. Then, even when I do type the string of random log in characters correctly, it will return me to the login screen as often as not – and I never even see the picture! Then my friends think I’m a jackass and they go to Fridays without me where they will joke and laugh and text all night at my expence. This mms webpage thing was just a horrible idea. Who came up with this and why? I know the economy is bad, and unemployment is at an all time high, but this idiot should be fired immediately. This problem is enough to make me get a Blackberry or Nokia and go to Verison. Ugh! What’s the point of making customers go log into that awful awful awful webpage to see a tiny picture? I just can’t bring myself to use this retarted feature anymore. If I can’t get text pictures on my iphone soon then I am going to kill myself by jumping naked off of an at&t building. Is At&t/Apple prepared to bear the emotional burden of knowing you prematurely ended the promising life of a valued customer? I hope not.

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