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You lack critical reading skills.

His concern is not that they companies would grab a copy, his concern is that he used to rely on them for syncing. He no longer has to rely on them. Google can shut down calendar and contacts and he would still be fine.

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You are too sensitive. My statement was literally (and I do mean literally) an objective statement of fact. Nothing more nothing less.

This ultra-politically correct mentality is what makes it hard to battle people like Trump.

The comment violates the guidelines by jumping to a personal attack with “You lack critical reading skills.” We need you to not do that when commenting here.

Please don't use such stark language on HN. There's a much friendlier way of saying that, something along the lines of "I think you misunderstood the author's concerns".

You are left-coast/euro sensitive. Nothing that he said was incorrect, non factual, or otherwise out of line.

It's against the guidelines. They are very explicit about such things:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not called "left-coast/euro sensitive", it's called manners.

I have no idea what you mean by "left-coast/euro-sensitive".

However, I will put what lorenzhs said a bit more bluntly.

Please don't go out of your way to be a dick - there is no need for it, and it benefits nobody.

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