mysticrokks, I don't know if you've gotten that a lot lately, but I agree with your last message.

And eventually everybody will start to use data alternatives instead of both SMS and MMS. The cell phone operators themselves will make this distinction less interesting on voice calls, there's a trend towards all-included subscriptions and many active users will want to move over to those. In a while, many people will only pay to be connected instead of for seperate services.

Long before that happens, Maemo will either be a mature phone operating system or a note in history.

Until this happens - and while you and I may already be there, it's going to be many years before people who rarely use their cell phones want to be there - until this happens, SMS, MMS, even WAP is technologies that people actually use in their lives. If people use it, the N900 as it is today may be too "future" to satisfy their demands. They're not the target audience either, it's not built for them.

It's not going to be a "switch", because these are not either-or services. It's going to be a migration, and some users do not care to move from a place they're happy with.

Granted, Nokia does not intend those people to use Maemo to start with. But as long as you and I know some of these people, and they know how to send/receive MMS, MMS as a service will exist.