I still cannot believe MMS was left out

According to this site, http://blog.return2sender.ie/categor...ing-(MMS).aspx

In Ireland alone, in the 3rd Quarter 2008 10.5 Million MMS messages were sent. I even had my aunt laugh at me because my new state of the art phone could not even do a picture message. ( I had to hide my head in shame) I use to send my nan the occasional MMS as she has no computer, now i cannot.

I still cannot believe people think uploading a picture to a website is a viable alternative, the whole point of MMS is no matter where the other person is, could be in a shop, their phone goes BEEP BEEP (they are alerted to the picture)and they see the picture or video without any messing around. Can you imagine sending a e-mail instead of an SMS? It could be 2 minutes or 2 days before its noticed, but generally people have the phones on them or around them all the time.