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Apple is once again making unrealistic assumptions about how many friends I have professional-quality headshots of to put into my contacts.

gleenn 3y ago
They would provide the photo. You choose your photo and everyone else gets it which is already true with the small contact photo and name which are shared automatically.
- cassianoleal 3y ago
  Yep, I'm definitely not going to photobomb people with this.
- joe5150 3y ago
  I see! That's better/easier. I hope they've come up with something that still looks decent for the majority of my contacts who don't have or share a contact photo or who (shock) don't use an iPhone.
  - BXlnt2EachOther 3y ago
    I know this is cynical but might a degraded experience for your Android contacts be a significant plus of this feature? (edit: I mean for Apple Inc, not for the end user). Like green bubbles.
    - joe5150 3y ago
      Maybe, to the extent that people care enough about it to bug their android-owning contacts about it. I don't think that will be a very large number of users, especially since this is pretty trivial compared to the features you lose in iMessage group chats by adding SMS contacts.
codetrotter 3y ago
Time to start hitting up old friends and arrange photo shoots with them then!
scop 3y ago
Not only that, but one thing that bothers me about Apple's demos is how unusual all the models are. Why can't they just look like normal people? I did see an old person who they referred to as "your neighbor" and I felt like that was the first time in awhile I had seen a "contact" in an Apple demo that wasn't some young-20 year old with some wild fashion and hair styles.
- joe5150 3y ago
  Haha, it's fine to me that they're using attractive hip young (or old) people in their promos, it's just funny to imagine how these features will play out in the real world given the kinds of pictures real people tend to take of themselves.
imbnwa 3y ago
The quality of those photos always gets me, makes me feel like Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down demanding that his burger look like the one in the advertisement.

gleenn 3y ago

They would provide the photo. You choose your photo and everyone else gets it which is already true with the small contact photo and name which are shared automatically.

cassianoleal 3y ago
Yep, I'm definitely not going to photobomb people with this.
joe5150 3y ago
I see! That's better/easier. I hope they've come up with something that still looks decent for the majority of my contacts who don't have or share a contact photo or who (shock) don't use an iPhone.
- BXlnt2EachOther 3y ago
  I know this is cynical but might a degraded experience for your Android contacts be a significant plus of this feature? (edit: I mean for Apple Inc, not for the end user). Like green bubbles.
  - joe5150 3y ago
    Maybe, to the extent that people care enough about it to bug their android-owning contacts about it. I don't think that will be a very large number of users, especially since this is pretty trivial compared to the features you lose in iMessage group chats by adding SMS contacts.

codetrotter 3y ago

Time to start hitting up old friends and arrange photo shoots with them then!

scop 3y ago

Not only that, but one thing that bothers me about Apple's demos is how unusual all the models are. Why can't they just look like normal people? I did see an old person who they referred to as "your neighbor" and I felt like that was the first time in awhile I had seen a "contact" in an Apple demo that wasn't some young-20 year old with some wild fashion and hair styles.

joe5150 3y ago
Haha, it's fine to me that they're using attractive hip young (or old) people in their promos, it's just funny to imagine how these features will play out in the real world given the kinds of pictures real people tend to take of themselves.

imbnwa 3y ago

The quality of those photos always gets me, makes me feel like Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down demanding that his burger look like the one in the advertisement.