Why I might never buy an Android phone...(short and sweet, comments welcome)

[JQuill]

Big Brother...aka Google

It's wierd...you ask 99% of Americans who use google "When did you first use google and what for?" or "How did you hear about Google for the very first time"...most people have NO IDEA. They did not advertise on TV, radio, print, or on the web...they just popped up and it became a billion dollar word of mouth driven enterprise. Now that they have such power, such a vast amount of cash on hand (quite literally), such influence over the world one question remains; can they be trusted?

Most people (including me for the moment) would say yes. But here's something to think about...(aside from EVERY other market and industry Google has ventured into, I am strictly talking mobile here)

You own an android phone and you're required to get a Google account...so much for the open model. Now this wouldn't be a big deal IF most if not all the phones main features are rendered practically useless unless you're signed into your google account. What worries me most is honestly the calendar feature that requires you to sign into Google, coupled with the fact that the GPS radio is ALWAYS on and linked to Google servers.

The simple fact is...if you own an android phone, you are Googles market research BITCH.

If you own an android phone Google knows what your job is, where you are at ALL times, what you're going to be doing in the future, what you plan on doing, how much you deviate from that plan and what type of information YOU consume along the way so that they can advertise to you and make money.

To that I say no thank you. I'd like to think for myself...

They're services and products are amazing, but they get a little trigger happy when it comes to the mobile market...which says to me that they're tying to get majorly involved in government. They WILL be the first major company to have a very big steak in world governments, just like religion does today. You watch Google will hold a role in the world bigger than the catholic church within 50 years.

Me being a media professional and designer by trade, am in a fortunate position to take advantage of such a company and most of us here are. And once they take over the developed world they might even do some good for some war torn countries. But I still don't know if I trust the idea of a crazy Russian with a passion for space travel who owns a marketing company that got VERY lucky, have such great influence over the entire planet. Governments come down HARD when they fall...businesses don't fall as hard but they fall much more often than governments do...if business gets wrapped up in government like religion is well...let's just say I am almost regretting not being a redneck and having an armory in my basement.

Comments?

(by the way this is VERY short and sweet. If your attention span isn't this long you shouldn't be playing with phones.)