[ale] [OT] Android Requires Gmail email account?!?!?

[Michael Trausch]

If you use an alternative to the market and (on Android 2.2 or newer) use an
alternative suite of sync plugins, Android without Google can be done. I
haven't done it yet, but am considering it for when I close the trausch.usGAFYD.

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Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
On Aug 7, 2011 8:26 PM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> Have you ever tried using Android-anything without a gmail account? I
> did for a week. My new tablet was next to worthless until I gave in.
>
> I trust Microsoft more than Google when it comes to privacy concerns. I
> think most people have forgotten that Google is an advertising company
> first and foremost. Just an opinion.
>
> If you read the permissions for each Android app, it is scary. Only 3
> of the 50+ apps I've loaded seemed to request permissions that are
> necessary for the task. All the others over-reach. For example, why
> would any media player need to access GPS data?
>
>
>
>
> On 08/07/2011 07:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Kid made a windows live account. Movung into online gaming territory.
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2011 7:05 PM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com
>> <mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Just create a Windows Live ID[1] and quit being a dick about it. All
>>> it is used for is logging into the Xbox Live service. I use a Hotmail
>>> account that won't even work if I try to login to Hotmail (they
>>> disable Hotmail accounts after a period of inactivity).
>>>
>>> [1] --
>>
https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?vv=1100&mkt=EN-US&lc=1033
>> <
https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?vv=1100&mkt=EN-US&lc=1033
>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 17:08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> So I put my foot down about even having an xbox in the house but was
>>>> over-ridden by wife and kid with his own funds.
>>>>
>>>> During the network connection setup it was time to create an xbox live
>>>> account. It asked for the email of the user.
>>>>
>>>> Then it asked for the password for the email account.
>>>>
>>>> um. hello?!?
>>>>
>>>> So if someone has a hotmail or other microsoft account then they
already
>>>> have access to their account contents. But my kid doesn't _have_ a
>> microsoft
>>>> account. gmail, yes.
>>>>
>>>> So he can't go forward 'cause there's no way in hell I'm letting him
>> put in
>>>> his gmail password without him having a microsoft account of some kind.
>>>>
>>>> He just got a hard lesson on why Dad doesn't trust that company with
any
>>>> thing.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> --
>>>> James P. Kinney III
>>>>
>>>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>>>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they
>>>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>>>> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
>>>>
>>>> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Sumners
>>> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>>>
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>>> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>>> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>>>
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>>> CH:D 59
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