Let's keep politics out of this discussion and also realize that there are a number of difference between blocking Twitter, Facebook, Youtube (i will use T,F,Y for short), and blocking a service used for accessing email and market apps on a mobile phone.
1. Sync is not blocked 24 hours of the day like T,F,Y, and randomly starts working throughout the day/night 2. Sync is not blocked in all parts of China, T,F,Y is blocked everywhere 3. T,F,Y have been used for political statements whereas Sync lets us collect mail and download apps on our phones 4. The app market is already filtered depending on what SIM you have in your phone and as far as i know there are no political or porn apps on the market 5. Whilst T,F,Y are arguably very big business, they are not as essential as collecting mail 6. Gmail is not being blocked when using a web browser So there are some really big differences here and there must be an alternative reason for blocking Sync ... thats what I'm trying to find out Is Google aware its being blocked? .... well they are very aware when all their services got blocked earlier this year as part of the porn crack down and even took the time to make some official statements. Google has also spent a lot of time complying with government request in the past which is why they were allowed to operate here in the first place (they got a lot of stick for that i recall). Also Google has at least one office in China and no doubt some of their staff must be using Android phones ..... and if they really dont know about this problem .... well then .... let me say it again ..... can someone from Google please let us Android users in China know why we are being blocked? China happens to be the biggest mobile phone market in the world and considering Apple are here now (even with a crippled WiFi 3GS, but a working app store and mail), you would think that Google pays attention to something that makes their phones useless -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
