Thread: The N900 is a mobile computer, ok, now how i convince other people?
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terryowen is offline terryowen
2010-09-16 , 05:45
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#59
Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Not at all. You CAN refuse to log into Gmail, go to setting to enable third party apps, go off into the web and download apk's to your hearts' content from any number of sources (including the Android Scripting Environment which you don't necessarily have to get from the Market.. without rooting, even). It's possible that the Apple side of things has similar possibilities if you jailbreak them.

Edit: Oh right, forgot to add the "ka-ching!" sound to the end of my posts.

KA-CHING!
Don't get me wrong, I like a lot about Android (I have a G1 and even Nitdroid installed) but as recently as a few months back, not logging in to a Google account made your system less stable. Perhaps that has changed post-Donut.

But you can't buy apps from the Android Market unless you have a Google account. I have one, obviously (and a lot of apps that make me happy on Nitdroid) I'm not saying that I don't buy stuff - I do - but I also had an unlocked G1 a year ago that was unusable until I figured out a way to log in with a non-T Mobile account. That didn't endear Android to me. I gather that iPhone is similar when you go the jailbreak path.

That's kind of my point, though. Both Google and Apple have backdoors into devices that make them vulnerable and I don't like that on principle. If I paid for it, I want to use it the way I want to. That (the freedom) doesn't make the N900 a good phone (my G1 still beats every other for reception in my area) but it makes sense to me.

But I had a Beta-Max vcr. ;-) I know that quality never wins in the long run.

Terry