FaceTime bug lets you hear or see through someone else’s iPhone, even if they haven’t answered

Yeah, basically the same people who use Skype for video calls, which is to say, older people. Many of us have parents who insist on video calling, no matter how inconvenient.

It might be cultural, from where they grew up when the landline phone was the very axis of social life, and TV was all breathless depictions of The Future with its marvellous video-telephones. Or it might be a cognitive thing, like, they don’t notice the botheringness of video-call eye contact in the same way they don’t notice that their new TV makes movies look like local news.

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