> There are valid legal reasons to integrate with the address book.
Nobody is suggesting it should be impossible to integrate with contacts. The suggestion is it should be impossible to do so without asking my permission, as is the case with other private data. Requiring that apps ask approval before accessing my private data is not at all like waiting in line for bread in the USSR.
> The argument that it's apple's fault
Is one that nobody is making, so you don't need to debunk it. Or at the very least, I'm not making it, in fact, I very explicitly stated I wasn't making that argument in the post you replied to.
Nobody is suggesting it should be impossible to integrate with contacts. The suggestion is it should be impossible to do so without asking my permission, as is the case with other private data. Requiring that apps ask approval before accessing my private data is not at all like waiting in line for bread in the USSR.
> The argument that it's apple's fault
Is one that nobody is making, so you don't need to debunk it. Or at the very least, I'm not making it, in fact, I very explicitly stated I wasn't making that argument in the post you replied to.