Can MMS Live Up To The Hype?

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Fri, Apr 26th 2002 9:24am — Mike Masnick

In the past, I've expressed some skepticism towards all the hype around Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) that all the wireless carriers are suddenly talking about. In case you don't follow this stuff (which is probably safer for your mental health), MMS is the "next step" following the ability for people to send text messages back and forth on their phone. It will let them send photos and other such "multimedia" back and forth from their mobile phones. The Economist takes a look at all the hype to see what chance they think MMS has. Basically, they come to the safe conclusion, saying that there's a chance that MMS will be quite successful, but it probably won't be accepted as quickly and as widely as some of the mobile phone carriers believe it will be.

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Carter, 26 Apr 2002 @ 1:55pm

not likely
It has been decades since the inception of e-mail as we know it, and I'm sure most of us are still just zipping text around the net. Messaging, especially on mobile devices, will remain a text-only affair for the most part because that's all that most people want to do.
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Dan Peterson, 27 Apr 2002 @ 12:06am

And in the U.S.?
There is hardly a chance this will catch on in the United States. If it ever does get released, the carriers will charge too much for it.
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