Nice goalpost move. I didn't say you have to sync with a computer. I said that if you do sync with a computer, you need the service. Your excuse, it's still crap but you don't really need it.
Frivolous lawsuits are also legal. I can't think of anyone with enough lawyers who'd want to build it. It would be a hobbyist that caved at the first C&D letter.
Same here but ATH.exe goes rogue every so often. Kill the process and I can't sync an iDevice until next reboot. I can't be bothered looking into it. I don't need to sync that much.
What notification email? Devices started having sync errors and I got a weird password prompt on the desktop. I assumed they'd nuked my account and went to the website. There's a link "If you received a password reset notification..." but you have to go to the blog for an explanation.