[geeks] Apple applications phoning home

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> I think the question is not "is it malicious", but "why?" Step back and think about this - he can't change preferences in his local address book without internet access. That is a problem, IMHO.
> 
> I can understand if there is a .mac sync client that *wants* to access apple.com sites in it's normal operation, but it should handle the lack of internet connectivity better (i.e. cache changes until connectivity is restored)...

Yeah.  This gets files under "failure to degrade gracefully."


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