Somebody please tell me what's wrong with just texting? Why did half the world decide MMS needed to be replaced with a proprietary app? It works, everyone has it and there's no confusion. Unless you are concerned about privacy or something, why not just text?

Edit: MMS not SMS. I didn't understand the difference.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait until everyone and their dogs gets back to MMS...
You know how expensive they were during the upcoming of WhatsApp? Germany paid 0,80€ (at the time. Though the price is probably not much different during the early iPhone/Android 2.3 times) per picture. Compare that to the amount of stuff sent today and at the time you will probably pay 5€ per day just to get some things across.

Source: https://www.derstandard.at/story/1747665/deutschland-hohe-preise-fuer-mms-verderben-das-geschaeft

[–] frostycakes@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's ironic that Europe adopted SMS years before we did in America because texting was absurdly expensive here. I remember paying $0.25/SMS back in 2003 or so (it dropped to a comparable bargain of $0.10/SMS after you sent 20 messages in a month), plus we had to pay to both send and receive them. I remember having to pay my parents $20/mo extra just to have unlimited SMS/MMS on my line only a couple years later once I was old enough to get a job.

I'm surprised that Europe kept up per message charges for MMS so long, they were basically always billed at the same rate as SMS here.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

It's just that almost every phone plan includes sms (dunno about mms) nowadays. So it's a no brainer and those that are getting pre paid sims probably only need it for calling anyways.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

MMS is still 0.37€ for me right now (SMS is free though). Completely unacceptable.

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