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Get another carrier! MetroPCS does not support messaging via short-codes - the 5 digit codes twitter, facebook, and many other services use.
I have MetroPCS also. If I had known about this in advance I never would have gotten a phone with their ripoff service! In the age of iPhones, their lack of features is inexcusable.

Opera is still the best browser for power users, and power users are one part of the community which has a lot more weight than other parts. Microsoft lost because it alienated not the masses (well, it might have done that too) but because it alienated the aficionados, the people actually liked using computers and weren't just drooling drones. When you lose the community who actually enjoy and love the technology they are working with, you might as well consider the game itself lost. So Microsoft still has dominant market share - they have surely lost the heart and mind of every thinking, aware computer user in the world through atrocious actions and heinous policies which were insults to lovers of technology.
The argument that IE should get priority is therefore warped in my opinion, since it only adds momentum to the avalanche instead of finding a new path.

Re: Timothy's statement - I am sick of this so-called "profit" rationale that is supposed to work magically to explain everything, as if actually being concerned about and addressing an issue because of its meaning and importance is not even worthy of consideration. Would it be right for every business in the world to only care about short-term profit at the expense of why something is done? If the healthcare industry did that we'd have people dying... oh, wait! We do have people dying because they don't fit into corporate "profit" models!
Just because something is or isn't for profit doesn't mean it is better or worse, or should be done or should not be done. Things should be done because people need and want them. This forum is testament to a need/want to have Opera support. To hell with profit if it means disregarding people's needs. I would also guess that one Opera user is probably more valuable than 100 or even 1000 IE using drones whose level of knowledge of computing barely extends beyond drooling. Should every business cater to this simply because it represents "profit"? – Althaea, on September 18, 2009 21:57