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Re:Android Migration by zamalek on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:18AM (#9684959)
It's one of those sad cases where someone "doing the right thing" opens doors for the bad guys. I remember Google having a page that "educated" about the potential pitfalls of having data locked up in Facebook (on the OAuth approval page). Maybe they will do the same thing here?

Thing is: for technical people like us it's a no-brainer, stay the hell away. This kind of thing is going to get a whole bunch of Aunt Tillys locked up in Apple. From that perspective the one option is clearly more "evil" as it preys on ignorance.

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Re:Android Migration by alandarev on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:28AM (#9684984)
> Thing is: for technical people like us it's a no-brainer, stay the hell away.

Are you implying that technical people do not use iOS? Well, you might be surprised if you dig for some statistics.

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Re:Android Migration by zamalek on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:39AM (#9685235)
No, just making an assumption about the target market of the feature: Android users. It's not a huge leap of faith to imagine that they would care more about issues like this.
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Re:Android Migration by threeseed on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:51AM (#9685299)
How noble of Google to "educate" their users about their data being locked up in Facebook. I am sure they were doing for the benefit of their users and not so they could access the advertising goldmine that is Facebook. Especially since IIRC this education was happening around the time that Google+ was floundering.
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