[yieldcrv]

Apple could really do so much more with the contact book

If it was permissioned it would have a lot more utility, for us

Like bring back google plus circles, for ios contacts

[drewbeck]

Yeah I was thinking this, too. Apple doesn’t do social networking in the modern sense, but they do have a connected and committed network. They could build some kind of publishing/feed app that leverages your contacts, group threads etc.

Actually, “group threads have a feed view / content publishing tools” is simple enough to work. Hm.

[iamdamian]

I would love to see this. There seems to be a really interesting opportunity for Apple to provide a privacy-respecting replacement for social media as we know it today. Somewhere between group texts/shared albums and private Instagram, with everything being end-to-end encrypted and meant to be shared in small groups.