With my past experience with Spotify, I read the data as;

A new album comes out, people try to use Spotify to listen to it, halfway into the song it is cut short and an advertisement plays at full volume, they look at their phone to see what the fck is going on, then CRUNCH!

I would not be surprised if purchased by CD Projekt Red them self,
This way they can claim to not pay ransoms, and also stop the data from leaking out.

Come on, your not on the couch doing "video conferencing" with Netflix?

After it updated itself and wanted me to login I just uninstalled.
I did use it a few times to update my drivers but a Chrome Bookmark could do the same job.
Uninstalling also removed another exclamation mark from my task tray
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Why just settle for one account when you can create as many as you want?

"A two-core machine would dedicate a huge chunk of one core to just decompressing audio,"
Maybe they should use a better suited codec/compression, there are so many to choose from these days.

i lov ethm tpp

I am for them slightly as they will make the screens more durable (better hinges and screen overlay),
But I hate touch screens so will disable the touch input.

Regardless of if you get a touch screen or not it will in courage other to poke at your screen if they touch screens on laptops become common (in which case you may have to remind them not to with a slap to the face)

Also possible to use high speed metal projectiles.

Why stop at just Texting (SMS/MMS)? I commonly see distracted people looking down while driving with a facebook blue glow.

I had a problem like this once.
To solve it I setup a second access point with throttled bandwidth then captured all of its data, not only was I able to capture his logins/passwords but was able to identify him and his address. Then it was a mater of using firesheep to take control of his Facebook page ;) and sending I nicely worded letter to his home address.

Where is the 3D printer option? It is about the only printer I use now days.

I commonly see developers not clean/check barcode data and just expect it to be numbers but it is easy to print out a database attack as a barcode so when someone scans that barcode it is run against the backend system.

Code128 lets you join many smaller barcode together that will be passed to the system as a single string, so when the system is only expecting a few digits you can flood it with kilobytes of SQL injections or shell code.

And that is all just with 1D barcodes. QR is 2D

So you would install Windows Mobile on it? That would destroy it for sure.

I can't speak for Apple users but as an Android user I only ever need to connect the USB on my phone for charging, everything else I do wirelessly. I also have a user changeable battery so could survive without USB at all.
So if by chance the USB connector becomes damaged or in someway disabled at a hardware/low level this approach would be rendered useless and they would have to fall back to the "Tell me or else" approach