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MMS fix for original iPhone
Here's a fix to make MMS receiving better for the original iPhone.
- eli 17y agoHard not to feel a little schadenfreude over how Apple products don't always "just work"
- timrosenblatt 17y agoHah! Yeah, I made this for myself to make things a little simpler, and then other people started loving it too. Figured I'd share.
- timrosenblatt 17y agoAlso, please offer feedback. Can it get any simpler? :D
- covercash 17y agoI could see all of my friends with original iPhones paying for this on the app store... make it a native app with some polish and a one tap 'save to photo library' feature and charge $1.99
- dschobel 17y agoMaybe move ad from being right next the submit button? I understand why you did it but if they get a lot of mis-clicks, you may anger the AdSense gods.
- tjogin 17y agoFrom what I can tell, this is ATT's fault.
- tocomment 17y agoI can't wait to try it. But whenever I followed the instructions in those text messages they never worked. I hope this does. Also do I get charged for those?
- timrosenblatt 17y agoI think AT&T charges for MMS text messages the same as any other message.
- axod 17y agoMMS seems like last decades technology to me. Surely most iPhone users are emailing pics? It's nice to have backward compatibility, but I don't think lack of MMS was really that big a deal.
- phsr 17y agoIt's a big deal when someone sends you an MMS from their phone and you have to deal with AT&T's awful retrieval site. iPhone to iPhone is fine, because you both are using email, but when friends and family have unlimited MMS, but limited data/no email set up on their phone, it becomes a huge pain in the ass
- vegashacker 17y agoWhen I first heard about text messages, I thought the technology would (at best) be used for a brief time and then die once people had email from their phones. I was wrong. It turns out there's a huge market for short, in-the-moment messages. And MMS is just text messages with more flexible bits allowed. Yes, iPhone users will continue to email pics, but they'll also MMS pics like crazy--two entirely different use cases, it turns out.
- blaix 17y agoIt's a huge deal for people with friends and family who aren't as tech-savvy and use MMS without even thinking, but go cross-eyed when you try to suggest emailing it from your phone. Nice work, Tim!
- misterbwong 17y agoThis is kind of like saying text-messaging is being killed by emailing. The issue isn't just backwards compatibility, but cross-platform compatibility. Emailing a picture vs. using MMS only works if the receiver a) has mobile access to email and b) has said email "pushed" to their phone (or is checking constantly).
- alrex021 17y agoNo, text-messaging is actually being killed by twitter and tweet-deck on iPhone. ;-)