I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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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
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.
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.
MMS is still 0.37€ for me right now (SMS is free though). Completely unacceptable.