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There's a market for the data that's on them.

And get this -- when Apple sells you a "new" drive to replace the broken one, at 1.5 times what it would cost mail order, how much you want to bet it's someone else's broken hard drive that they got for free.

You'd have a point if they had said "If it has a ringtone, it probably doesn't have an interchangeable lens."

IOW you aren't "speaking knowledgeably". :-)

Cars are replaceable. A few years ago I bought a Toyota. Then I got tired of it so I bought a BMW. No one has me locked in, I'm free to switch. So they have to compete to keep me as a customer (or in the case of BMW to get me back, I was a former BMW driver).

That's funny -- I've been reading HN for a long time and am aware that most comments are left by lonely idiots with super low IQs. I've tried to adjust for that, but even so your position is even more inane than most. Keep trying. :-)

You are out of your fricking mind -- buy the wifi SD card and the keyboard or -- buy a netbook and get a CPU, hard drive, screen, battery, etc thrown in for free.

What was the email about? Do you have a pointer? Why didn't you want it published? Did you say in the email it was private? Was it in response to something public? Was it abusive?

Actually they telegraphed the change long before that, but the problem is that OAuth changed in the interim and is now a moving target. So any developer that got on board and implemented OAuth is getting burned twice.