Um, I've been able to do this on twitpic for months now. Is this only news because iPhones can do MMS now? Don't the iPhone users already have a myriad of other twittering applications that serve silmilar functions? Also, couldn't you have just use the email app on the iPhone to email an image to this custom yfrog address?
Fear tethering. The at&t network isn't close to being able to handle it. if they do implement it, you won't be able to afford it. People with jobs that pay their data charges will get tethering, bringing the network speed to a grinding halt.
Spetember 25th!?
Since when did September become part of Summer in this world? Since your LITTLE NETWORK isn't ready, can we please bring this phone to other NETWORKS that can handle MMS?
Iphone is just a bitter sweet device to use...
@hcho3: Yeah man. Four fk'in days. No one has ever been four days late on anything before. Stone them.
And yeah. Apple oughta kill that damn exclusivity. I mean, except for the fact that they are one of the two companies that sort of agreed to the exclusivity and they make tons of money on it. Yeah.
I swear buying an iPhone has to drop your IQ by forty points or more.
@AmphetamineCrown: Not trying to be a pain, but more for clarification. As I understand it, AT&T has excluded a rather common feature and stated it would be available "before the end of the summer". So, unless I misunderstand, it is not that they missed the deadline by four days, they missed it by somewhere between 4 to 99 days, depending on perspective.
That said, I do not have forty IQ points to lose, so I should avoid buying an iPhone.
@Monty: I understand disappointment when deadlines are missed, but I guess was too cynical to ever really read that as a hard and fast deadline. B'sides, I thought they said "late summer" anyway. If they had rolled this out 4 days ago, it is safe to say no one could have called 'em on it. Seems to me like its an awful stupid thing to bitch about.
I'm just tired of whine-prone iPhone users and their whole sense of entitlement. When you bought the phone, you bought it with certain limitations; one of those limitations was the network. If I understand right, iPhone users consume 10x the bandwidth of other smartphone users, but only pay like a 20% surcharge over other plans (and they bitched about that too). So, iPhone users generate about $3B per year ($30/mo. x 12 x 9M), yet are responsible for the redirection of AT&T's entire $18B build budget for this year into increasing 3G capacity for those 9M users. You really want tethering?
And, before even one non-US pinhead shows up with the requisite "eh... I pay X and get tethering and MMS," talk to me when you can drive 3000 miles in your country and stay on 3G 90% of the time.
AT&T, guys. People already say your network is crappy enough. And maybe it's true, but dangit, could you guys stop saying, at every dang turn, that such-and-such feature is gonna bring down your network? I mean, video streaming, VoIP? Tethering? MMS?! What's going on guys?
I'm not gonna trivialize the difficulty of building a high-speed mobile network. I know it's mad difficult (as I'm sure UnderLoK would be more than happy to come attest).
But man, alive, when your customers say you suck, and you're all like, "Man, I know. I mean, I'm pretty sure picture messaging is gonna drop our whole dang network!"...
....You know how girls aren't attracted to guys who are always putting themselves down? Yeah, like that.
@OMG! Ponies!: Except that a large number of people don't have mobile email so MMS is still useful. At the very least it's useful to be able to RECEIVE it.
And AT&T has said it will be free (well, included with SMS).... as did this very article that you are commenting on.
@bobman1235: Look, my main point is that MMS is kind of going the way of the dodo. Most of the people that I do forward crazy shit to have smartphones or are plunked in front of a computer all day as part of their job.
MMS was something that I simply never used and its absence from the iPhone feature set was a moot issue in my book. I email stuff. Always have - always will.
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Whatever...I'm just glad to finally be getting it.
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Since when did September become part of Summer in this world? Since your LITTLE NETWORK isn't ready, can we please bring this phone to other NETWORKS that can handle MMS?
Iphone is just a bitter sweet device to use...
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And yeah. Apple oughta kill that damn exclusivity. I mean, except for the fact that they are one of the two companies that sort of agreed to the exclusivity and they make tons of money on it. Yeah.
I swear buying an iPhone has to drop your IQ by forty points or more.
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That said, I do not have forty IQ points to lose, so I should avoid buying an iPhone.
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I'm just tired of whine-prone iPhone users and their whole sense of entitlement. When you bought the phone, you bought it with certain limitations; one of those limitations was the network. If I understand right, iPhone users consume 10x the bandwidth of other smartphone users, but only pay like a 20% surcharge over other plans (and they bitched about that too). So, iPhone users generate about $3B per year ($30/mo. x 12 x 9M), yet are responsible for the redirection of AT&T's entire $18B build budget for this year into increasing 3G capacity for those 9M users. You really want tethering?
And, before even one non-US pinhead shows up with the requisite "eh... I pay X and get tethering and MMS," talk to me when you can drive 3000 miles in your country and stay on 3G 90% of the time.
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I'm not gonna trivialize the difficulty of building a high-speed mobile network. I know it's mad difficult (as I'm sure UnderLoK would be more than happy to come attest).
But man, alive, when your customers say you suck, and you're all like, "Man, I know. I mean, I'm pretty sure picture messaging is gonna drop our whole dang network!"...
....You know how girls aren't attracted to guys who are always putting themselves down? Yeah, like that.
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Or are you talking about the app store, which has nothing to do with AT&T?
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Besides, I'm sure that the MMS will be an add-on so that AT&T can get you to shell out more money.
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And AT&T has said it will be free (well, included with SMS).... as did this very article that you are commenting on.
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I can't imagine that "a large number of people" fall into that category.
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MMS was something that I simply never used and its absence from the iPhone feature set was a moot issue in my book. I email stuff. Always have - always will.
Now copy&paste, not having that was irksome.