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By mobile you mean Android. In IOS, apps needs to explicitly ask the user to access the contacts after installing the app.



Ha, yes, yes I mean Android. I'd heard there was another mobile OS out there, but haven't ever used it.

So I wonder if there's a measurable difference in the Linkedin graphs of iOS and Android users as a result of this? I guess only Linkedin knows...


Well, technically iOS only implemented the controls in the last year or two after the hubub with Path harvesting contacts:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/8/2785217/path-ios-address-bo...




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