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As an example, consider the Google Contacts interface via GMail. This interface allows us to add an arbitrary number of phone numbers to a contact, and to give those numbers labels. Those labels are either predefined (Home, Work, Fax, etc) or can be set to a custom value. | As an example, consider the Google Contacts interface via GMail. This interface allows us to add an arbitrary number of phone numbers to a contact, and to give those numbers labels. Those labels are either predefined (Home, Work, Fax, etc) or can be set to a custom value. | ||
Microsoft Outlook, conversely, does not give us an affordance for creating a contact with more than 14 phone numbers, and the labels cannot be customized. So what happens when a contact with phone numbers with custom labels gets sync'd? | Microsoft Outlook 2010, conversely, does not give us an affordance for creating a contact with more than 14 phone numbers, and the labels cannot be customized. So what happens when a contact with phone numbers with custom labels gets sync'd? | ||
While this might be an edge case, since this involves a user's data, we should really think through what we would do. | While this might be an edge case, since this involves a user's data, we should really think through what we would do. | ||