So if you take a smartphone photo, and send it to a phone number contact in a message, boom, you just sent an MMS.
A majority of random american public wouldn't recognize the MMS acronym, despite likely using it regularly.
visiting the US back in the day I realised just how different the "phone culture" was, for instance there was such a thing like being charged for receiving calls (in ~2008) and drastically different coverage maps, etc - I have no idea how things are now over there
Coverage is still an issue.
one of the reasons why I suspect MMS went completely unnoticed here in the UK is that Blackberry was extremely popular rather early, and then Android ate it
I don't think I've ever sent a single group message over MMS
> I haven't seen or used an MMS for maybe 20+
That's a bit of an exaggeration:
> The first MMS-capable phones were introduced around 2002 in conjunction with the first GSM network.
I remember the model of the phone I used MMS last, but couldn't remember the exact year. Just looked the model up and I see it's not as old as I thought. It was about 12-13 years ago actually around 2007~2008.
I'm pretty certain I haven't even tried MMS in any other phone since. With blackberries I used their messenger, with Android I used various apps, never MMS. I still use plain SMS occasionally.
it would be interesting to map MMS usage worldwide, maybe it's a more important feature than I thought
EDIT: correction, I actually tried MMS once or twice with a phone circa 2007-2008, just checked (so not quite 20 years)