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Really? I make like... 3 calls a week from my phone, generally of low importance. I deal in hundreds of emails which range from the trivial to bank account deta
by ZoFreX 13y ago
Really? I make like... 3 calls a week from my phone, generally of low importance. I deal in hundreds of emails which range from the trivial to bank account details. Why would I trust Google with the latter and not the former?
- pedrocr 13y agoBeing an Android user doesn't imply being a Gmail user.
- e40 13y agoFor like 99% of Android users it does.
- gbog 13y agoHere in China people barely use emails and never use gmail, and most run android. Or maybe your note needs to add "in my little personal tiny slice of the world" context?
- Apocryphon 13y agoWait, what? What do people in China use instead of emails? Do they just use SMS all of the time?
- hayksaakian 13y agoeducate yourself http://news.yahoo.com/android-huge-china-google-control-035903534.html http://news.yahoo.com/android-huge-china-google-control-0359...
- alextingle 13y agoIn what way does that link answer the question? Just to reiterate: What do people in China use instead of e-mail?
- gbog 13y agoThey use message services such as QQ and WeChat.
- joesb 13y agoAre you saying they use messaging service instead of Email? Citation please? Most people use both messaging service and email, each for different purpose. For example, it's easier to create new topic with email. It's easier to attach a file. It can be automate for mailing list and have easier address for support email. How does QQ or WeChat replace that in China?
- gbog 13y agoSorry, not convenient to search the topic on my phone, but it is kind of common knowledge in China. Our young and old nannies all use qq, and they probably have an email attached to their account but do not know it. many colleagues and friends even with higher education rarely check their mail, maybe reuse a week. So you'd ask, how to share contacts? All goes through the phone number, every one has one and know it. Qq is much more than our text messaging, it can share files, and is easier than mail for that. When I hear all the fuss about fixing email I can't help but think that it is already fixed in China.
- Brakenshire 13y agoAnd, of course, I already give the same information to my phone company. But really it's an issue of combining that data with what Google already knows about me (location throughout the day through Android location services, phonebook through Android sync, gmail, web search history, web browsing history through its tracker network, and so on). I do appreciate that my argument and my actual use of the internet are inconsistent, my only defence is I am just in the process of working out how to move to some different services, to at least fragment where I'm sending my data.