I think Testudo was being sarcastic. And I agree with the C P choir. Just do it, Apple. Fark.

...would be nice if they ever get around to it. Along with true GPS Navigation. Sigh...

But it's got desktop-class email and all future phones will eventually support that as well. Its just a matter of time until people barely remember even using MMS.

Then why even have SMS messaging? Plain text isn't worth it, but MMS, no, we don't need that.

And it has NOTHING to do with email being available on many phones. Many people don't want to pay $30 for a data plan for their phone, when they can do txting for $5-$15. But I guess if someone has an iPhone, they expect everyone to pay money for plans they don't need.

everyone complained when apple dropped the floppy drive from the original imac.

Except Apple basically left all those people with floppy disks to be read (forget even writing) to have to go out and buy disk drives to read them.

And then Apple forgot to include any removable media capability for backup, so you better have had a network (not prevalent in the home) or wanted to upload via dial-up to some server (slow as molasses).

Oh, and they also decided that serial ports were no longer needed, basically telling people "Hey, you know all those peripherals you spent all that money on. Yeah, we've decided we don't want to support those anymore with a $10 connector, so you guys go out and buy new ones"

But ignore the issues with Apple's choice, which was based more on trying to save money than on 'forward' thinking.

forever. At some point in time floppies had to go. I just wished Appled replaced it with the SDHC format slot. That's what I'm using in my MacBook Pro. I can't figure what Apple has against using any type of removable card format. They're really not all that expensive.
I'm glad the Japanese are getting their emoji characters. Those characters do add a friendly touch to texting.

There's little reason for a powerful OS such as Mobile OSX not to have some of these simple features. I'm sure Mobile OSX is a work in progress, so I think patience is in order here. We'll see if Android is as powerful, feature rich and glitch-free as eveyone expects it to be.

It's been said that Motorola hired 350 programmers to work on the Android OS handsets. I'll bet Apple doesn't have anywhere's that number of staff for Mobile OSX. They've probably got 10 people chained to their desks for 24/7.

The members here are rightfully complaining about lack of simple features, yet the iPhone sits fairly high up in smartphone market share in the U.S. Somebody must like the iPhone even with all it's limitations. Almost 10,000.000 iPhones sold in a year in the face of a terrible economy isn't shabby.

Is there any info on the update if it includes the following:

1. Copy/Paste.
2. Ability to edit documents such as OpenDoc and PDF.
3. Ability to record/send video & audio podcasts.
4. Camera enhancements such as digital zoom, low light settings, etc.
5. Ability to delete photos on the iPhone.
6. The Photograph app to actually categorize the photos as events as seen in iPhoto.
7. Ability to run apps in the background via push data such as for using chat messengers, streaming radio, etc.
8. Ability to tether for countries that allow tethering such as Canada.