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This could have been solved with regulation. Mandate delivery of all available phone call metadata to every digital telephone. Mandate that mobile phone operating systems must expose that data to apps approved by the user.

We'd have hundreds of enshittification-ready VC-backed apps to fix spam calls overnight.

Instead, we got STIR/SHAKEN mandates, which is just a soft way of having the legacy telcos "promise to fix it for you."



I believe there are Phone app alternatives, I just don’t trust them

I feel like Apples M.O. on software is to build the lowest passable set of features in their apps, never enhance them, allow third parties to delve into the high functionality/spec software. Mail is horrible, Camera good enough for most people, for me personally even Safari is in this camp; I’d swap any of those for a third party solution without much thought. Phone app becomes a bit to much of a security risk to use a third party, such that I’d never even consider leaving the default Phone app.




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