Comment by ryandrake

Here's a thought. If the concept of a phone was never invented, and nobody knew what one was, and then suddenly here in 2024, an app company invented an app where:

- The user could type in a N digit number and hit a button...

- This would cause another user's device to instantly stop doing what it was doing. ring and buzz with a modal popup window...

- With no authentication whatsoever or often even no identification...

- And then if that other user pushed a button, it allowed the initial user to be able to instantly start sending them voice

This thing would never make it past any app store's guidelines, and would likely be unacceptable to users. It's intrusive, invasive, and practically invites abuse and spam. Yet, since The Phone is an actual historic invention that goes back decades, it's culturally acceptable for I guess legacy reasons.