iPhone and MMS

The iPhone is a multi-media wonder.  In fact, my kid suggested the other day that I had switched to the iPhone from my old CrapBerry Pearl because, “your new phone has a TV in it!”  I can watch movies, listen to music, look at photos – it’s quite amazing.

That is until someone sends me a picture message.   You know, the cute pictures of the kids that my wife sends me from her primitive cell phone.  When I get those on my iPhone I actually get a text message instead.  The text message has a link to www.viewmymessage.com, which should actually be calledds www.nochanceyouwilleverviewyourmessage.com.  First of all, when I try to go there right now this is what I get (and has been like this for at least 2 days).

The other day, when the web site was “working”, I got to a screen where I had to enter a message ID (something like m1bgdg3jp) and a password (which was something easy to remember like salt1opus).  This is really easy to do on an iPhone… oh wait, no it’s not because there’s no copy/paste on the iPhone (and really even if there was it would still be a huge pain since there’s an ID and a password – two things to copy/paste).  After I manged to get both things entered right I was treated to a tiny little thumbnail version of the image.  No way to enlarge it.

This is some kind of a crazy joke, right?  First of all, why not just support MMS like every other phone manufactured in the last 4-5 years?  If you can’t do that, no big deal because we’re talking about the all mighty iPhone – it can do anything!  Heck, I can buy, download, and watch a friggin’ movie on this thing.  So, send me a TXT with a link, that’s fine.  How about a link directly to the stupid picture?  Give me a high resolution version of it too so I can have some fun pinching and pulling it on my screen to make it bigger or smaller.

There are so many ways to make this experience better.  There have to be people at Apple and AT&T who are mortally embarrassed that it works this way.