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Yes, and how about iMessage and FaceTime that require email addresses in contacts to work? And also the 3rd party sites that rely on Facebook OAuth API to ident
by zhoutong 14y ago
Yes, and how about iMessage and FaceTime that require email addresses in contacts to work? And also the 3rd party sites that rely on Facebook OAuth API to identify users based on emails (they could use uids, but I'm sure some are still using email).
- kennywinker 14y agoConspiracy theorist in me wonders if this move might have anything to do with the new facebook integration in iOS... millions of iPhones are about to start automatically pulling contact info from facebook, wouldn't it be nice if all those people started using their @facebook.com email address?
- nickheer 14y agoSince this change, I haven't seen any difference in my contacts. It looks like it's still pulling all available email addresses, not just facebook.com ones.
- kennywinker 14y agoI assume you're running iOS 6, yes?
- nickheer 14y agoYes indeed.
- zhoutong 14y agoI'm afraid the details of the iOS 6 features other than what's announced in WWDC are still under NDA (which you signed when you gain access to the developer beta). So perhaps you want to remove that comment.
- danieldk 14y agoThis much is completely public: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#facebook http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#facebook (Click the "Contacts and calendars", and see that contacts can have multiple addresses, even with Facebook sync.)
- josteink 14y agoWhy do you care about that? Why does it matter to you that someone is discussing something Apple NDAed? Do you care at all if it something Androidish? Something from MS? From anyone except Apple? If no, then shut your hypocritical mouth.
- slig 14y agoThis completely blows away the "let's the users sign up using facebook, we store their email and if we ever decide to ditch the FB login, we can always email them a password reset"
- spydertennis 14y agoI think for now the api is still returning their correct email address.
- omarchowdhury 14y agoHave you tested it? Is this going to stay that way or will API usage move to returning only @facebook.com as well?
- jaredsohn 14y agoI'm a different person and I haven't tested it, but I would think it would ignore the new "show on timeline" field when retrieving via the API which would in effect return whatever e-mail addresses it used to return in addition to (assuming people don't change their settings) the new @facebook.com address. It would be great if someone would check this, though.
- spydertennis 14y agoYes I just tested it.
- omarchowdhury 14y agoAnd they are still returning non-Facebook addresses through the API? That's surprising.
- starship 14y agoI'd like to second the request that someone test this who is in a place where they can easily do so. Thanks in advance.