Clinking on the link, I thought "that would be a great Christmas gift for Geeg." ... Then my eyes caught sight of the price.
In full disclosure, I was doing a search last night to see if I could find one of these and the goog (that's google for some of you) pointed me back to this thread.
If people want to have their entire lives owned by the company that stores their photos, that's their business.
True story.... was having a conversation with someone complaining about the Facebook thing and then go into how they were going to buy a Google phone.
Yeah, well, between the two (practical) choices, I'm gonna go for Android every time. Too damn risk-averse to go with whatever successors there are to CyanogenMod at this time (which I can't think of for some damn reason). But I'm definitely going to turn off/avoid as many Google services as humanly possible. But I get the irony. People really don't want to understand until it's too late, and then they go find the absolute worst/dumbest source to try to understand such that they end up sounding like a total moron. It's depressing sometimes.