awesome post :)

and I still think demandred killed asmodean.

damn, I bought an iPod anyway (and most generations ever since) — WISH I would have listened to that piece of advice, lol.

I think I'll remember where I was when I heard this news. Fuckin' Facebook of all places! It's like being caught with your pants down at the Second Coming.

lol, well there have been some bumps along the way :)

(I know it's spelled wrong; that's how I've always pronounced it in my mind) The timing DOES seem douchey :/

LOL, thinking the same thing (even though I "liked" /. on FB and that's where I heard this news just now). Fuck it, I'm going to man up and go back to IRC and Usenet full time. Internet won't be the same. :(

And I remember thinking that (about registering) too! I lost my first uid pw and had to make this one; lurked as AC between times and just said who I was. Still hate registering at sites.

+Fuck

And it's still s-on after the "unlock".

Effin excellent answer. Isn't it depressing. Go for the dough! ...but turn your garage into a hobby shop with old chipsets and show the grandkiddies how it's done. (Like mine did with ham radio)

I think if the standard android user (think non-rooted) suddenly lost their google acct for whatever reason, they'd be shocked to learn exactly how integrated the phones are with google. Forget gmail; think calendar (years' worth of files, dates, appts, notes), picasa (which many of us used well before google acquired it and decided to become Morality Police), Voice (voicemail, esp archived ones), and esp Contacts, not to mention market apps, all seamlessly integrated under your gmail account. (And many people are invested in their youtubes, blogger accts, reader, and other google apps that are tied to their main acct.)

With an iPhone, you're less likely to default to using google services on an iPhone.

with a script. Ex: bigpresh's perl script.

It's more reasonable to use your real google accounts with gmail, calendar, picasa, etc on the phones, where it's actually USEFUL, and limit G+ to the fake google account on a pc.

(And after this brouhaha, to find non-google solutions for your phone data.)

Damn, this is the FIRST TIME I've wished I'd standardized on iPhones instead of Androids. Never heard of apple (or even MS) basically bricking phones.

so if anything it's our JOB to try to change G+, not to "love it or leave it".