Time to redesign the iOS address book

Recently a friend called from a new phone number, so I decided to add it to her existing contact. What appeared on the phone label selection screen terrified me.

I don’t know a single person who has a home fax. What is a radio phone? Are pagers still operational? Using a phone in the car is kinda forbidden. I know about 7 people who still have a fax number on their business card.

Apple is known for being radical in their design — they were the first to start removing obsolete ports from their computers, then make giant transitions from OS9 to OSX and from PowerPC to Intel CPU architecture. Now there are rumors about even removing the phone jack in the next iPhone…

How can you design for the future and still support such anachronisms?