I'm from Belgium, I've received about 10 MMS in my life. All failed to download. MMS use is apparently extremely country (or person) specific.

> I've received about 10 MMS in my life. All failed to download.

same here in germany. nobody ever uses it

Well can you back this with data? I am french too and beside my mom nobody use MMS in my circle. We did like 10 years ago.

Data, no, it's an opinion.

But we all have mums (or other people not using a chat app), and a lot of us write text messages to them. If the text message is more than 3 sms, congrats, you use mms. If you use the feature "send contact" or make any attachment to your text message, you use mms. If you send an emoji in you text message, you may also use mms.

You don't have to be aware that you are sending an mms to send one. Most sms apps do it transparently.

The biggest sender of mms is probably iMessage from iOS, because it makes let tech saavy users ignore the difference between chat and sms (the infamous green bubbles). So users just send stuff, and sometimes, they do so using mms.

The less technical the user, the more likely they are to send mms without knowing they are.

Does everybody use MMS, or do you regularly use MMS? Because your complaint about messaging apps sounds like the usual Linux user stuff. Most people will just use whatever app is more common (which according to this is Messenger)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7RQwoJ8z83Zi65NDMvmHKVU0Wx...

People don't use mms, they send stuff using their sms app, which decide to use an mms or not. In fact, long text messages are often turned into mms under the hood. People just don't know about it. As long as it works transparently, they don't have to.

Do people actually use SMS? Aren't they bloody expensive?

Sms, mms, and phone calls are included in a lot of cheap unlimited contracts accross europe.

It's free in a lot of places.