What's a reasonable way to protect yourself here? Other than wiping and restoring. Are there any encryption tools, or ways to keep your emails and other data on your device safe?
You make a good point, but (actually) happy with my current phone plan and wouldn't mind extending another two years for a cheaper HTC One with stock android.
Overall I really like the new Flickr layout, especially the main photo stream. It's more of a Portfolio that one can use rather than a collection of your photos one after the other.
What I don't like is the single photo page. The photo itself is nice and big, which I like. But once you scroll past it it's pretty much a cluster fuck of information that looks very much out of place. It looks like they didn't even bother to make it blend well with the page.
Nice. I was at first very confused about the support room chat, thought it was just a page to help you get started. Turns out it's a support chat for the app.
I think one of the bigger turn offs might be the fact that the new owner will have to get everyone to setup their payment method once they switch. Because the current payment system relies on 37Signal's own.
But how many people have throwaway passwords on sites like these? It might not mean much to the tech-savvy community, but I'm sure a lot of people use the same password for a lot of services.
They might not be able to do much with your account on Last.fm, but they have your email, for which you may or may not use the same password.