I assumed that was something teenagers grew out of.
You’d think and hope so lol. But just a couple years ago my partner was in a work related group chat where that happened. Full grown adults chastising others for defiling their blue bubbles or whatever. Super silly but afaik still a thing.
That’s super interesting concerning MMS messages still costing extra in the uk. My understanding of that tech is that it was just a wrapper around email. Each phone number would have an email address like phonenumber@mms.carrier.com and all the carrier is doing there is translating phone numbers to email addresses and vice versa and kinda hiding that it’s doing it. I haven’t really known if MMS affects my plan for a long time, I think those usually were included with unlimited texts for the most part. Anyhow yeah for some reason in my experience Americans usually only use Whatsapp due to having international friends or for large group chats that might have international folks in them. And signal is used frequently by more tech savvy people, but most “normies” I know would likely have never tried it. My parents probably haven’t even heard of Whatsapp. It’s largely a cultural thing.
Hmm, according to Wikipedia it seems like the sender uploads their picture (or whatever the MMS is) to a server, then the receiver gets a SMS with a link to the URL which is opened to download the content in their WAP browser. Seems you can also send an email to that secret email address but that’s a separate path.
I did a quick check and my network doesn’t even seem to support MMS anymore!
You’d think and hope so lol. But just a couple years ago my partner was in a work related group chat where that happened. Full grown adults chastising others for defiling their blue bubbles or whatever. Super silly but afaik still a thing.
That’s super interesting concerning MMS messages still costing extra in the uk. My understanding of that tech is that it was just a wrapper around email. Each phone number would have an email address like phonenumber@mms.carrier.com and all the carrier is doing there is translating phone numbers to email addresses and vice versa and kinda hiding that it’s doing it. I haven’t really known if MMS affects my plan for a long time, I think those usually were included with unlimited texts for the most part. Anyhow yeah for some reason in my experience Americans usually only use Whatsapp due to having international friends or for large group chats that might have international folks in them. And signal is used frequently by more tech savvy people, but most “normies” I know would likely have never tried it. My parents probably haven’t even heard of Whatsapp. It’s largely a cultural thing.
Hmm, according to Wikipedia it seems like the sender uploads their picture (or whatever the MMS is) to a server, then the receiver gets a SMS with a link to the URL which is opened to download the content in their WAP browser. Seems you can also send an email to that secret email address but that’s a separate path.
I did a quick check and my network doesn’t even seem to support MMS anymore!