incoming text message alerts

you said it yourself.. legally.. try doing it illegally .. it will do the trick

"never heard anything back. Has anyone ever recieved a response from Apple when they have sent a request for improvments/enhancments? "

Did you read the page when you submitted your feedback?

Just about the first words on the page are:

"Use the form below to send us your comments. We read all feedback carefully, but please note that we cannot respond to the comments you submit."

It does not say that they cannot respond to "all" inquiries.

It says:

"please note that we cannot respond to the comments you submit."

The feedback feature is not a drive through window where you place an order. It is more like a comment box. They read them. They do not respond. Over the years they have included many improvements in their updates. They appear to listen. Just because a feature is important to you does not put it at the tp of Apple's list.

Then, yes, Apple has responded.

People wanted MMS, it has been made available ( as long as the provider supports it), people asked for copy and paste and got it, people requested tethering, they go it, search was requested and was introduced, voice control, video capture, better camera, etc.

Yes, I heard from Apple re global ringtones on all alerts. I sent them, on average, one request a week via the "request for enhancements" email method. I also lobbied for it here. End result? After five months of sending emails, and being chided and/or deleted here, when 3.0 came out, that particular option (ringtones for email alerts. calendar alerts, voicemail alerts, and text alerts) was, well, missing. I believe I can say that Apple was heard from, loud and clear.

Oh, and another poster here is correct, you CAN get sounds other than tri-tone, chime, glass, horn, bell, or electronic on your alerts. The iPhone is certainly CAPABLE of giving you other sounds for alerts. Unfortunately, they would be ILLEGAL/VERBOTEN alerts, because you would have to jailbreak your phone to get them. But the phone can do them. Apple just, for whatever reason, doesn't think that you need to have them.

I agree. I've used this phone for TWO YEARS waiting for some simple options to contol text messaging alerts. I get text messages from key systems at work (database, application, and web servers) and it's been frustrating to not have better controls.