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Originally Posted by psylichon
Well I think we have a bit of a chicken and egg syndrome here. I am of the understanding that AT&T removes MMS from the iPhone plan because the device doesn't support it, not the other way around. Like, turning off MMS enables the option to convert incoming MMS to that annoying viewmymessage.com SMS garbage.
AT&T has every reason in the world to be pushing for MMS on the iPhone. Considering how popular and media-rich the device is, they stand to make a killing from iphone MMS usage.
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you may be right, I just don't understand while when earlier when I had an N95-3 and Tilt I was able to switch my sim card interchangably and was still able to send MMS on those devices and now I'm not able to. It's like AT&T went in and provisioned all the iPhone plans to not be able to. Maybe they got wind of swirlyMMS and decided to stop all people with iPhone plans from doing so. I can see Apple's point (although I don't agree with it) of not wanting MMS on phones and it's also why they don't allow us to attach files to emails from the phone. They don't want you to be able to send audio files back and forth between devices. Small ringtone files sent between users of course cuts down on their ringtone profits. Smaller song files able to be sent cuts down on song downloads from iTunes. We are deprived of features that are possible on just about every other phone out there because of their financial greed. I love the hell out of Apple but sometimes I hate them too.
I'm wondering though if the inability to attach a file to email will disappear with the 2.0 firmware. Most business users will not tolerate this as they have been able to do this freely on Treo's, WM devices, and BB's for years.