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    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      No shit?

      Which is why requiring a number isn’t OK. But the minute you make a phone number available to customers, it cannot be acceptable not to treat it like a phone number.

      iPhone already has a lot of apps that aren’t worth the effort to make available for Android, and this is going to make that meaningfully worse.

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        2 months ago

        How about you post your phone number here? It seems you have no problem in sharing someone share their number in public, and I hope you put the same srandard to yourself.

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            2 months ago

            So what exactly is wrong with making the voice mail say “I will never check this. Email me at person@company.tld if you want help”? If the requirement is bullshit, why shouldn’t people comply maliciously? As long as there’s some way to contact the dev (like through email), who gives a rats ass if the phone number doesn’t work? I don’t need to call Lawrence Dawson cause Sync is having issues. I can post on the sub or probably find an email somewhere. It’s not gonna be instant like a phone call, but it doesn’t need to be.

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              2 months ago

              Because it’s lying to your customer to have a phone number you don’t use listed. Listing a number is an advertisement that you offer phone support.

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                2 months ago

                I legit can’t tell if this person is a really good troll or if they’re talking in circles and haven’t figured that out yet.

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            2 months ago

            Okay, I missed read and I apologize. However, you’re just trolling. You disagree the phone requirement. Yet when others propose alternative solutions that direct uses to an equally direct communication method, you oppose that too without providing any alternatives.

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              2 months ago

              The alternative is to not list a phone number and to abandon Google until they remove the requirement.

              Listing a phone number you won’t answer is lying to your customers.