MMS fix for original iPhone

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.

Nice work, Tim!

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 think you missed the point.

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.

I think AT&T charges for MMS text messages the same as any other message.

Hah! Yeah, I made this for myself to make things a little simpler, and then other people started loving it too. Figured I'd share.

From what I can tell, this is ATT's fault.