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I just gotta say it's funny that receiving a phone call on your phone is a major annoyance these days.


I know what you mean but it wasn't funny when I was recording my kid at his first birthday party and got interrupted by a robocall just seconds before he cut the cake. From that day, I've learned to put the phone on DND mode before recording anything memorable.


What I don’t understand is why Apple isn’t fixing this.

It’s simple - it’s broken UI, Android has done it, people want it, it doesn’t help in any way, so why keep it? I mean why? Hell, if you really want to keep it, give an option to disable it.


Add this to the list of reasons why advertising is a cancer on society. Without robocalls and telemarketers, calls wouldn't be an annoyance.

(Though I agree that they should be relegated to the level of notifications now. Smartphones are computers. Imagine if Skype call would lock you out of whatever you're doing on your desktop.)


To me it’s more like a device which can also make calls with an app.




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