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Re:Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers by axod on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @05:51AM (#659869)
MMS is useful for talking to old legacy phones :/ Nice to have, but hardly critical.
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Re:Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers by gaius on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @09:48AM (#660158)
In Europe everyone has MMS.

Tho' this is becoming less important because people on all platforms just post to Facebook or Flickr directly from their phones now, but even so, lack of MMS hurt iPhone early on.

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Re:Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers by axod on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @01:14PM (#660522)
Disagree. I doubt many iPhone users really mind. You email people your pictures instead of MMS :/ they get them when they're at their computer if their phone can't do email.

(I'm in Europe, not everyone has MMS).

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Re:Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers by gaius on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @02:36PM (#660641)
Actually it was the other way round - my iPhone wielding friends complained that people kept sending them MMS messages that they had to visit a website to see!
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Re:Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers by icey on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @05:17PM (#660915)
Receiving MMS on the iPhone (on AT&T) has been a total joke so far.

You get a text message that says to go to viewmymessage.com with some ridiculous username & password pairing. Since you can't copy & paste, or multi-task, you have to somehow remember what that combination is. Of course, once you've managed to pull up the page, you find out that the multi-media part of the message is a SWF... Which the iPhone doesn't support.

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