Posts by Chris Boyle 10 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Feb 2008
It's often remarkably simple: if Stan has your phone number in contacts on a device with the app installed, and he clicked the enticing-looking upload-contacts button, and Facebook has ever known that that phone number is you, then, well... it knows a link. Regardless of your consent.
I don't see what attacking ships on the high seas has to do with all this, nor do I agree with the assumption that copyright infringers would otherwise purchase content legitimately, and that you can therefore call it a "cost". Please stop propagating these two most egregious examples of industry propaganda.
Fine for me. PC sync: don't care, I have multiple PCs in multiple locations, so the "constantly sync to the cloud" model makes a lot more sense (also, people who provide PC sync tend to mean Outlook sync and I don't run Windows). Exchange support: my employer has Exchange, but I only use it for email and they have IMAP enabled. Headphone jack: this is a WTF, I agree, but not a deal breaker for me. I'll just buy a small, cheap adaptor. Stereo Bluetooth: they said at the NY launch, this will come to this device in an update.
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