Comment Open's good - but where's the freedom? (Score 1) 208
I've been looking at getting a smartphone for a while - and Android is a pretty appealing option - but one of the things that's holding me up is that as far as I can tell, to access all the handset's functionality, I have to be a Google customer.
Which I am - I've had an @gmail.com email address since the days when one had to get an invite to get one - and have very few issues with my benevolent overlord.
But - unless I'm wrong - the freedom with Android is the freedom to be a google customer isn't it?