Paul, like you I also have an Android (Google's OS for smartphones)
based cell phone. It seems to me that you have confused it a little.
When I got the phone (with the number of the local provider, obviously)
and fired it up for the first time, I was asked to give my GMail account
to "initialize" the phone or "connect it to the cloud" or whatever would
be the term. Android phones seem to be unable to operate without a GMail
account stored somewhere deep inside them.
What I am trying to say is that my (local) cell phone number is a part
of contract between me and the respective operator. Google is no part of
it. Even if I were to take the Google Nexus phone, I would think that
the same reasoning would have applied.
Boris
On 1/13/2011 1:58 PM, paul stenquist wrote:
I think it has to do with gmail's role as an app for smart phones. I
had to set up a gmail account when I bought an android phone from
Verizon. Didn't bother me in the least. Don't use the address, but it
certainly didn't make me angry. There are lots of weird things going
on in the world of interconnectivity as the players stake out their
territory. If it doesn't affect me personally, I don't give a damn.
Paul
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