If a buddy takes pics, i guess the buddy should learn to photograph, and you being able to take a photo is useless?
How do you do it with tripod, setup the mobile phone to make a pic every second for 3min straight? Can you also do that with photocameras? You make fotos, then look at them, then notice one little mistake, then foto again, then back to tripod looking at the pic and this for a long time? I guess it's just tedious?
I guess at a party setting it has to be a buddy, one would not setup a tripod, then go back to a 'natural conversation' while the mobile takes pics?