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Why do people in Germany unnecessarily use a Gmail address to register their Android devices?
by tssva 7y ago
Why do people in Germany unnecessarily use a Gmail address to register their Android devices?
- probably_wrong 7y agoDark pattern. You can register an Android device with a non-Gmail address if you know what you're doing, but that's not where the UI takes you by default.
- tssva 7y agoMy parents, both in their 80s, figured out how to create a Google account without using a non-Gmail address so I find the idea that it is somehow difficult hard to accept.
- martin_a 7y agoLazyness or not knowing better and probably because Google will make it very easy to set this address up when activating your phone. But most people will then install the mailbox app from their provider and just use that.