Wait, are you concerned with the privacy implications of +1 or are you bothered by the lack of -1? Pick one.

In any case, Google users get to choose whether they want to opt in or out of the service:

https://profiles.google.com/+1/personalization/

And by the time Nokia finishes yet another smartphone operating system (assuming they ever do -- abandoning part-way seems to be their forte), 600MHz and 128MB will be beyond low end.

Others are already eating their lunch on the low end with Android offerings. They hope to turn that around by taking on the expense of creating their own OS?

Evidence? Didn't think so.

Time to stop using Google and their services altogether.

And Google is helping you get started by deleting your private profile.

The simple solution?

Heh, yeah. You get on that. Let us know how it goes.

Crap. My keyboard, which I love dearly, doesn't have a Windows key. Can this action be remapped easily or am I going to have to replace my keyboard to use Gnome 3?

This. A thousand times this.

If I was a Motorola customer or shareholder, I'd be calling for Jha's head. I'm neither, and there are plenty of other manufacturers putting out great Android wares to choose from, so I'm just pointing and laughing.

Goodbye Motorola, we hardly missed ye.

How does she do updates, for example, without a desktop or laptop running iTunes?

I dunno, but the Nexus One has received two major Android updates since its release just over a year ago. That's as many as any iPhone has ever received. And, they've both been at least as significant as any iOS update.

It's not clear to me why iOS's slower update cycle is anything to brag about.

The Nexus one barely got 1 years of updates then OFFICIAL compatibility was dropped but you could get updates by rooting. Apple has been providing updates for 3 years for each of the iPhones before they become End of life, then users are left with Jailbreaking to get more features.

1. Gingerbread just rolled out to Nexus Ones in the last couple of weeks.
2. That's the second major update the Nexus One has received in a little over a year since it was released. That's already as many as any iPhone has ever received.
3. No end to official Nexus One updates has been announced.
4. The iOS 4.3 update just released doe not support iPhone 3G (according to TFA), which is less than three years old.