Even though they have set out to literally change the landscape of mobile electronics, they have had to make some critical decisions along the way. The product has to function flawlessly to be successful. If it crashes or locks up on people it would be the worlds greatest product flop. You'd see a very rapid sinking of a multi-billion dollar company, the likes of which could only be rivaled by companies like Enron and WorldCom.
I can almost guarantee you that they have been testing MMS along the way and made a decision that it wasn't yet stable and could not be included on initial launch. It's just too risky. But take heart! MMS is merely software! Today you wake up to find there is no MMS but another day along the road you are going to wake up to your iPhone downloading a nifty bit of software that is MMS on steroids. You'll be saying to yourself, "Now THAT was worth the wait!"
True, MMS is only software, but the fact remains that this technololgy has been around for over 3 years. If Apple couldn't get a fairly simple and proven technology to work on this phone for release you have to wonder what else is going on.
Every day I keep reading reports of what this phone can and can't do, how expensive and exclusive the data plan will be, etc. and all I can think is "Do I still really want this phone?"
Everybody keeps making excuses for the numerous shortcomings of this phone, but where does it stop? Most of the people on these forums are going to buy this phone even if it hardly works and costs them $300 a month to own simply because it's Apple. I really would like to own and use this phone as demonstrated and advertised, but not if the technology is behind the times and costs far to much to own.
All I can do is hope that WWDC keynote monday has some good revelations. Perhaps some really cool new features (it's mostly just software anyway) and a $20 all you can eat data plan.
