So I guess all those people who are taking Apple and AT&T to court for misleading/false claims about MMS are just gonna have a stronger case now?
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September 25th date a slap in the face?
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Unfortunately. People who are too lazy to work for their money leeching it from corporations who are too lazy to defend themselves against frivolous lawsuits.
I'm ashamed for a lot of people in this country.
I was saying that I actually would have preferred it if they came out and said it was delayed until late fall instead of them releasing it three days into fall. At least that way it would seem like they still have a lot of work to do, instead of a little "Ha Ha, we'll release it three days late and they won't do anything".
And for everyone whining about this being another MMS thread, cause while it's actualy a poor AT&T customer service thread, who cares if it is an MMS thread? No one forced you to read it, or evenmore go through the trouble of replying. Get over yourselves, people whine about far more petty things on here... I've seen at least as many threads on 3.1, cracks in plastic housing and light leaks. It's just a forum, it's not like I'm knocking on your door at 7am on Saturday to talk about MMS.
I called 611 on AT&T and asked about the release Date. The CSR didn't even know about the 25th as the release date. I asked about AT&T being in breach of contract by saying "Late Summer" and was told that if I didn't like it that I could cancel my account pay the ETF and be done with them, and that he didn't care either way.
AT&T is just another Large Company out to screw anyone they can and get away with it
Who cares what AT&T said? People should just stop whining about it, and get a life. No one is going to get any money out of it. The fact that people are trying to sue over a promise is absolutely ridiculous.
You and everybody else that knows the situation. If I wasn't in a contract ending in June of 2011 because of my 3GS, I'd be gone.
Well, I've said that before, and I've done that before. And yet, here I am...
Well, I've said that before, and I've done that before. And yet, here I am...
Well I didn't mean MR. I meant AT&T. And I'm really just being facetious. I've tried several times to get away from the iPhone and failed. I know it's not happening anytime soon.
You can use the "search" feature at the top of the page to confirm this for yourself.
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I'm raising the flag.
I almost certainly would have seen a thread about it somewhere around here.
You ain't gotta lie to kick it...
I almost certainly would have seen a thread about it somewhere around here.
You ain't gotta lie to kick it...
Paying costumers expecting promised services. How dare they. Contract responsibility goes both ways.
AT&T and Apple could have simply said it was delayed and promised a when date soon, but really what happened if they did that people would have flipped out still and they proably wanted to give a firm date.
hmmmmmmm i would highly recommend that if the MMS threads annoy you... that you just don't open them.... ya know: ignore them! read a thread on a subject you care about!
There was nothing in your contract with AT&T that promised MMS.
Is that not what they just did today?
Actually there is and promising a feature would be included by a cetrain time frame where people would be making a purchase on the asumption it would be there by that time frame is a contract failure in most states.
The fact remains, AT&T did say it would be avaible late summer and they just made offical annoucement they would miss it. Since summer ends on the 21 and fall begins.
I sincerely hope nobody actually bought an iPhone solely for it's MMS capabilities...
Only reason I can think of it delaying it those 3 days is to move what they know will be a sudden spike in the system to away from the business week. It shoves all the spike in data of people sending MMS text to the off peak time of the weekend. AT&T knows after 2-3 days of having MMS on the iPhone people will grow bored with it and it will fall back to normal usage.
It falling on a Tuesday would be very problematic for the system because Tues-Thursday are more than likely the heavies data days on the system so AT&T does not want to risk thing messing businesses that pay a hell of a lot more money than iPhone users.
If you took every statement I made literally, you my friend apparently do not understand the brilliance of the literary use of hyperbole. I was meerly pointing out the poor business decisions of AT&T and how it can make iPhone users feel.
For those saying AT&T didn't have any contractual obligations to make MMS available before the end of summer you're mostly correct apart from those of us that got it put in our contract. I'm actually glad it won't be out until the 25th, because since it's not out on or before the 22nd I get 6 months of free unlimited messaging. So as I've said, there's no whining coming from here, just awe of AT&Ts poor business decisions.
Why would it be a slap in the face? A slap in the face would AT&T coming forth saying, "Just Kidding!"
You really don't want to know what I'm thinking.
However, I will say this...
Three days? No worries. It doesn't matter in the big scheme of things.
