Fury as OS X Mavericks users FORCED to sync contact books with iCloud

It's gotta go up to Cupertino's servers and back down again and who knows in between

Apple has removed from Mac OS X Mavericks the ability to directly sync an iPhone's contact list with its owner's computer – forcing the user to instead upload their address book to Cupertino's cloud and download it to the local computer.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/07/apple_mandates_icloud_contact_syncing/