You can sync your data with your own computer, sir. Mysync is the app, IIRC. You can sync it with dang near any service right now, excepting Exchange, admittedly. But support for that is coming.
Android IS open. That's the whole point to it. And the apps aren't proprietary google, either. I use a wealth of non-google-produced apps. I also use some of their ADC apps (Android Design Challenge. You know, where google challenged developers to make apps for the OS? Sort of flies in the face of google-produced proprietary, doesn't it?) and quite enjoy them.
Android isn't proprietary, either. It runs on the OpenMoko handset, on a number of HTC devices (the ATT Tilt, Nokia N810, OpenMoko Freerunner), which are offered by different carriers. It's not limited to t-mobile, they just released the first official device for a completely FREE OS for mobile devices.
Did your precious Apple do that? No? Hmm. Yes, well, clearly Google is the evil in this equation. Given that it's store has had non-google apps in it since before the handset even released. Those awful, awful people at Google.
You know what typically happens AFTER you hallucinate from drinking the cult's kool-aid, right?
I'll be the first to admit that the G1 is not perfect. The keys are too flush, the chin takes getting used to and certainly there are features missing I cannot fathom a reason for (data IM client), but as far as open-ness and proprietary data are concerned, it's a good two generations of handset above the competition.
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Devon @ Nov 6th 2008 9:20PM
Uh, what?
You can sync your data with your own computer, sir. Mysync is the app, IIRC. You can sync it with dang near any service right now, excepting Exchange, admittedly. But support for that is coming.
Android IS open. That's the whole point to it. And the apps aren't proprietary google, either. I use a wealth of non-google-produced apps. I also use some of their ADC apps (Android Design Challenge. You know, where google challenged developers to make apps for the OS? Sort of flies in the face of google-produced proprietary, doesn't it?) and quite enjoy them.
Android isn't proprietary, either. It runs on the OpenMoko handset, on a number of HTC devices (the ATT Tilt, Nokia N810, OpenMoko Freerunner), which are offered by different carriers. It's not limited to t-mobile, they just released the first official device for a completely FREE OS for mobile devices.
Did your precious Apple do that? No? Hmm. Yes, well, clearly Google is the evil in this equation. Given that it's store has had non-google apps in it since before the handset even released. Those awful, awful people at Google.
You know what typically happens AFTER you hallucinate from drinking the cult's kool-aid, right?
I'll be the first to admit that the G1 is not perfect. The keys are too flush, the chin takes getting used to and certainly there are features missing I cannot fathom a reason for (data IM client), but as far as open-ness and proprietary data are concerned, it's a good two generations of handset above the competition.