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I think that a big part of this problem is that Apple played along. If I am understanding this correctly, the bigger issue here is that people's phonebooks are
by rlu 14y ago
I think that a big part of this problem is that Apple played along. If I am understanding this correctly, the bigger issue here is that people's phonebooks are getting updated without consent (as opposed to the bigger issue being a different email being displayed on fb.com) and that this was only possible with Apple's involvement? Correct me if I'm wrong please.
I think it's also worth noting that I have had no issues on Windows Phone. I don't remember how contacts work on Android (never owned an iPhone) but on Windows Phone, it displays ALL of their emails. So the UI would look something like this:
John Smith
-Call John
-Text John
-Email John (john@gmail.com)
-Email John (john@college.edu)
-Email John (john@facebook.com)
So while it's true that if I only have a contact's details through Facebook Connect that I will only have their Faceobook email, is that really so common? Most people (even from Work - indeed ESPECIALLY from work) that I email from my phone I have as a PHONE contact. Even if I have the phone's contact linked with the FB contact, it will display both emails. And if I'm emailing someone from work and I don't have them on my phone then I usually look them up through Exchange rather than Facebook...
Just my $0.02. Not trying to say that this is not an issue, just trying to show how:
1. Apple seems largely to blame? (correct me if I'm wrong)
2. The way UI works on my phone makes this mostly a non-issue and I'm curious as to how other phones handle "multiple emails per contacts". I'd imagine it's rather similar.
- sp332 14y agoFacebook actually syncs phone numbers, email addresses etc. to your iPhone. So if a user's email gets hidden, it looks like they've deleted that email from their profile, so the FB app would delete it from your address book assuming that it's no longer up-to-date.
- cbr 14y ago> the bigger issue here is that people's phonebooks are getting updated without consent Do you want to get a notification every time someone updates their email? Or do you want the emails your phone knows for people to just automatically stay up to date on their own?