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		<title>Or you could just tell the users to...</title>
		<dateCreated>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:56 GMT</dateCreated>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:56 GMT" ctSaves="9" flPreview="false" id="2011.10.25.1399" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1399" text="Or you could just tell the users to..." type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/25/orYouCouldJustTellTheUsers.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:04:25 GMT">
			<outline created="Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:38:21 GMT" pgfnum="10425" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/10/25/sam.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;140&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;3&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named sam.gif&quot; class=&quot;storyImage&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inessential.com/2011/10/25/why_just_store_the_app_data_on_dropbo&quot;&gt;Brent Simmons explains&lt;/a&gt; how RSS synchronization would work if you wanted to use five different RSS-reading apps on different devices. It sounds like a nightmare. I would never ever in a million years attempt to develop this. It's a million times more complex than RSS itself. Bad use of your energies as a developer."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:39:24 GMT" pgfnum="10426" text="Sometimes you just have to say no to users. No, we don't do that. If you want that feature feel free to get X, where X is the name of an app that promises to provide the annoying functionality. Especially when there's such a simple solution to the problem that requires the user basically giving up nothing."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:22 GMT" pgfnum="10427" text="For 10 points, what's the solution? Expand this &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/25/orYouCouldJustTellTheUsers.html#p10427&quot;&gt;heading&lt;/a&gt; on the story page for the answer.">
				<outline created="Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:40:42 GMT" pgfnum="10429" text="Use a web app. "></outline>
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			<outline created="Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:48:16 GMT" pgfnum="10431" text="PS: I had lunch today with &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/jchris/status/128921586802769921&quot;&gt;Chris Anderson&lt;/a&gt; of CouchBase. I bet he'd say you could do a fine job of sychronization with CouchDB."></outline>
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