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iPhone Call Recording: It Makes Too Much Sense Not to Do
- jodrellblank 17y agoMobile phone audio quality is barely a photon's cough above usable. Add in mobile phone signal transience and the suggested periodic beeps to indicate that it's being recorded ... would that be good enough to be a podcast? If that is good enough, then don't wait for Apple to code it, use the mentioned conference call/third party feature to dial an Asterisk server that announced "Recorder present" and then records the conversation.
- aw3c2 17y agoI consider things like these scary privacy problems. Imagine it becoming a standard and then your friends going "Hey, you gotta hear what X said about Y on the phone. Here, I recorded it." It would probably be considered weird if you had something against recording, after all you are talking with a friend and you trust him/her, right? If you want to record a phone call, you can always do so (maybe not on a locked-down thing like the iPhone, well, your choice). But making it a prominent feature screams for abuse.
- DannoHung 17y agoSo, I take it you no longer appear in public because all your stupid friends take pictures of you every single fucking time you go out to a bar?
- pavel_lishin 17y agoI actually make it a point to not hang out with people if they don't record my drunken shenanigans for posterity.
- noblethrasher 17y agoAn armed society is a polite society. We already use plenty of other self documenting communication mediums (email, instant messaging, SMS).
- bkudria 17y agoA polite society is a conforming society. Opinions offend.
- louismg 17y agoI think the old standards of what we considered public and private are changing. If there are tools out there, they can be used both for good and evil - but our first preferences should be to trust people, not to distrust people, and the capability should be made possible.
- alaskamiller 17y agoGoogle Voice has phone recording. I use it quite often for business calls. It chimes before the recording begins with a message informing both parties what's going on.
- drewcrawford 17y agoUnfortunately it doesn't (yet) record outgoing calls.
- dejb 17y agoImagine if someone came if with a generic idea for a computer program and they described it as 'Windows Blah Blah'. Many would see this as reflecting poorly on the author's knowledge of computing. What about Linux or OSX? Why are you so close minded as to only think about Windows? they might say. In the same way I think that the use of the word 'iPhone' for generic smartphone concepts should be deprecated in favor of more generic terms.
- louismg 17y agoIn this case, I referenced the iPhone because of their recent introduction of voice memos. It seems like the tech is there, and they can marry it to the standard interface. I also understand Android has this available.
- bkudria 17y agoIt would be kinda pretty trivial to do this on any smartphone. Trust me,the iPhone could record before apple gave us Voice Memos.
- dejb 17y agoI'm guessing that you used it because many others before have also used it. The problem is it tends to propagate an untrue and unfortunate meme that the iPhone is the only mobile computing platform. Now that many are starting to doubt the 'perfect golden future' of the iPhone I think it is time to squash this meme. The other thing is that many phones have had the capability of doing much of this for years. I had a phone 5 years ago that could record phone calls. I think it was an Ericsson. The ironic thing is that there is a high likelihood Apple wouldn't allow you to implement these ideas where other platforms would.
- johnyzee 17y agoI always record calls that include word-of-mouth contracts, from negotiating auto repairs to canceling paid subscriptions. I have never had to use one of these recordings, not even in case of disputes, but I have always felt comfortable that if push comes to shove I have their word on tape. (In Denmark it is legal to record a phone conversation without the consent or knowledge of the other party, you'd probably want to check your local laws regarding this.)
- wmeredith 17y agoThe legality of this varies from state to state in the US. Where I live, Kansas City, MO only one of the parties on the line has to be aware of the recording, so this would be fine.