On 1/13/2011 8:18 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
I'm one of the people who does Android at Google. For those out there who already use some combination of gmail and Google calendar ("those" is a big number), when you give the phone your login, it goes and automatically sets up your email and calendar and contacts on the phone, and then makes sure they automatically stay in sync. It's really slick and handy, and the gmail program that runs on Android is very smooth& snappy.There's also a regular ordinary mail client that will talk to various kinds of mail servers including the ones most people have "at work". But if you hate Google and/or have no intention of using any of that stuff, you might be better off with something other than Android -Tim
You appear to be doing a great job, Tim. I really like my Android cell phone as I find it both easy to operate and also powerful enough for the functions beside the mere making/accepting phone calls that I am using it for.
I don't hate Google and I even don't hate Apple and/or Microsoft. I do dislike some of their practices and/or approaches and/or offers. For example, as you know, I am living in Israel. It means that if I had to give Google a call to make them see that I am me, not anybody else and a generally nice guy, only for mere purpose of opening an e-mail account, that would be a bad practice on their side and potentially a rather big addition to my monthly phone bill. I don't expect Google to offer me a direct line to a human operator, like call, immediately picked up by a human, 1 min conversation, done. I still shudder from the memory whereas I was having to navigate some answering machine labyrinth having been stuck right before the glorious human voice greeting me - it did not recognize me saying "yes" at the final gate...
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