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This sort of thing is what makes me so uneasy about trusting Google with anything. It’s the same story: Google is “open” with the products that don’t make them money and closed with those that do, using “open” as a marketing buzzword against Apple and hoping nobody notices how incredibly closed and secretive most of their products and operations really are.
iOS is far more “closed” than Android, but at least Apple doesn’t try to bullshit me about it. They put it right out there. “We control everything because we think it’s better that way. If you don’t like it, there’s the door.”
And since they’re honest with me, I trust them more.
—Exactly.
I think I missed this when Marco reblogged me back in July, but he nailed Google’s bullshit on the head (thanks to Till Matthis Massen for bringing it to my attention). And with Google’s full-frontal assault on net neutrality, I’m experimenting with cutting my ties.
I’ve deleted my Google Apps account and one Google account, switched to Fever for reading news, and Skype for my work proxy phone number (it works great now that Skype can accept calls in the background on iOS 4 and doesn’t require minutes for phone calls, unlike Google Voice). I just need to drop Feedburner from 1FPS and Finer Things, and I can delete my personal Google account altogether.
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