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Yes. Completely redesigning how phones work is exactly what we need. This problem is only going to get worse.
by aw49r59aw 3y ago
Yes. Completely redesigning how phones work is exactly what we need. This problem is only going to get worse.
- asah 3y agoconsumers have an easier solution: they just don't answer the phone unless it's a someone they know.
- dymk 3y agoThis isn't a solution. I need to accept legitimate calls from numbers who've never called me before all the time.
- SirMaster 3y agoDon't accept them until they start talking. IDK, my iPhone will show me the live transcription of the callers message without me answering it. And then if I want to speak to them, I can answer the call in the middle of the message being left and talk to them. Sounds cool, but this concept isn't at all new. Anyone who used answering machines did exactly this. You would listen to the message being left in real-time and pick up if you actually wanted to talk to them. If people can't be bothered to leave a message, then that's their problem.
- dymk 3y ago> Don't accept them until they start talking. Not professional, not an option for some calls. > If people can't be bothered to leave a message, then that's their problem. It's actually my problem if I miss an important call. A message is great, sure, but I still missed the call.
- SirMaster 3y agoMy phone shows a live transcription of the message being left. If I see that it's an important call, then I can pick up and answer right there mid-voicemail. That's what I was referring to. They start talking when they leave the voicemail. This is how we did it for a long time with home answering machines too. Except instead of reading a live transcription, you listened to their live recording, and could interrupt it and answer if you wanted to talk to them. It's not a new idea.
- dymk 3y agoThat relies on people leaving a message, which not everybody does. And not everybody has a phone that'll do this live message transcribing. And no, everybody who decides to not leave a message isn't "not worth your time" or something.
- mrcodedude 3y agoThen look up the missed number and call them back if you think it might be legitimate?
- kemayo 3y ago> Not professional, not an option for some calls. Callers can't (well, shouldn't) expect to be able to reach you immediately by calling you. There's a lot of valid reasons to not answer your phone. You might be driving, you might be in the bathroom, you might be getting lunch in a noisy place, you might be in the middle of a different important conversation, etc. At which point the caller needs to realize that the "professional" thing to do is leave a message if they want to be called back. (Or try calling again later.) Because there's enough junk calls that expecting people to call back every missed call that didn't leave a message is just unreasonable.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>If people can't be bothered to leave a message, then that's their problem. That's easy to say when you're not looking for a new job. Or don't run a business.
- davchana 3y agoOr something like utility compam6, law enforcement, HOA somebody calling.
- coldpie 3y agoIt's not a solution for you, but you're one of a shrinking group. Phone calls as a way to communicate with unknown people are on the way out, no one under 40 uses that method except under extreme duress.
- dymk 3y ago> no one under 40 uses that method except under extreme duress You live in a tiny bubble if you honestly believe that.
- coldpie 3y agoOK you're right. It's not an age thing, no one answers unknown calls now. "Eight-in-ten Americans say they don’t generally answer their cellphone when an unknown number calls" https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/12/14/most-americans-dont-answer-cellphone-calls-from-unknown-numbers/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/12/14/most-amer... And that study is from 3 years ago, it's surely a higher percentage now than it was then.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoVOIP is decades old by now anyway. I’m perfectly capable of calling across the globe with various technologies that don’t need rotary phone technology
- bongodongobob 3y agoWell, that's a multi trillion dollar project that would involve every country in the world. Will never happen.
- davchana 3y agoInternational calls are still expensive than national or state calls (the regular cellular ones, not the whatspap viber imo or internet ones).