Genius-Level Software Developers

Unfortunately, there aren't more of them around. For anyone who has ever wondered why their data plan gets chewed up so quickly, look no further than the idiots who program smartphone apps that force you to opt-out of 3G / 4G data synchronization over the phone networks:

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Because I really wanted my multi-year-old photos from Picasa, which I'm about to delete, to sync down onto my phone over HSPA. Thanks guys. I really like it when a program punishes me for its bad behavior. Of the top-three data consumers on my phone, the top two had better just be email and web, because that is the stuff I actually care about and need immediate, high-speed access to. Also: Why do I want to sync these photos anyway? Isn't that what the cloud is for? So I don't have to lug around a full-sized (!) local copy, if I don't want?

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So they're smart enough to know that I might mind, but not smart enough to explicitly ask me whether or not I want to burn up my high-speed data quota first.