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"AT&T took another feature away Thursday after a new memo uncovered that it was dropping its A-List feature. Starting immediately, new customers won't have the option of picking five or ten friends for unlimited calling. Existing customers will still keep the feature, but Engadget noted that switching from individual to family plans or the reverse might remove the feature."

According to AT&T, the Mobile to Any Mobile feature takes the place of this A-List option. I suppose, but if you had a business or school on your list, then that wouldn't be mobile to mobile would it? AT&T probably found this might not have been a good move so now for new customers they aren't going to offer it any longer, much like taking away the unlimited data plans. But at least by giving up unlimited you got the ability to tether your iPhone. Oh yea, that should have been an option anyway. What are your thoughts?

"When Apple finally rolls out the iCloud this fall, you'll be able to backup all of your music on Apple's own iTunes servers through iTunes Match. If iTunes Match recognizes your tracks, it'll automatically mirror them in the cloud; otherwise, you'll be able to manually upload them. If you ever have a devastating system crash, you'll be able to just slurp them all down again."

Ah the good old days, when you could back up your library to CDs or DVDs, at least the good old days if you have upgraded to iTunes 10.4. This feature was dropped, so your only options are to backup to a hard drive or some cloud service. Everything is going to the cloud these days. I never used this feature, but I hate it on principle when things are taken away as an option. What are your thoughts about this being removed?