Don’t Drink the Google-Ade

Last night I posted a quick blurb that said:

I just want to go on record here that I will go back to using tin cans and fuck­ing string before I use a phone with an OS devel­oped by Google. So mote it be.

In the com­ments for that post Wes asked:

What’s your rea­son for this? Don’t like Google or some other objec­tion? I’d use it if its Mac sup­port was as good as the iPhones and the user expe­ri­ence was as good or better.

I don’t really have much else to write about; so I fig­ure I’ll go ahead and answer this on.

The bot­tom line is, no I do not like Google. Why don’t I like Google? Well, the answer to that ques­tion is long and com­pli­cated; so I’m going to limit my answer to Google in rela­tion to the Android OS.

What Google Is:

To start out I’d like to take a brief moment to sum­ma­rize exactly what Google is; since many in the tech indus­try don’t seem to know. Google is a pub­licly traded cor­po­ra­tion; just like Apple, or everyone’s least favorite tech. com­pany: Microsoft. This means that Google exists solely

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