I 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
I 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?
It'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
When 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.
It'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.
This 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).
I don't think text messages are going to be "killed" by anything in the very near future.
Except by constantly-increasing prices. (Some people pay 25 cents to receive a spam message. You can buy an entire newspaper for that amount of money!)
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 30.4 ms ] threadI understand why you did it but if they get a lot of mis-clicks, you may anger the AdSense gods.
It's nice to have backward compatibility, but I don't think lack of MMS was really that big a deal.
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
Nice work, Tim!
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).
Monthly text messages sent:
2000 - 14.4 million
2005 - 9.8 billion
2008 - 110.4 billion
Data: http://www.ctia.org/consumer_info/service/index.cfm/AID/1032...
2010 proj. - 192 billion
Data: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=12176
I don't think text messages are going to be "killed" by anything in the very near future.
Except by constantly-increasing prices. (Some people pay 25 cents to receive a spam message. You can buy an entire newspaper for that amount of money!)
Most people don't own an iPhone.
Most people who have iPhones don't exclusively talk to other people with iPhones.
And most people don't buy a data plan just to send or view an e-mailed picture message from their iPhone-owning buddies.