Why won't Apple allow us to have custom tones for text msgs?

Honestly my biggest gripe about the phone. The iPhone is so popular it ***** when I'm in public and hear that text msg tone go off and look at my phone only to find out it's someone elses phone! Allow custom tones for text msgs just like are avalible for ringtones!

I agree. Submit the feedback to Apple as I did.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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