<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Doug Lytle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:support@drdos.info">support@drdos.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>If you read a Linux magazine, it's often get many articles about privacy and security and keeping your system safe. Yet these same magazines discuss gmail, Android, google calendar and picassa without any mention of privacy and security. The files that are being put through googles<br>
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I have an Android phone, but I refuse to get a gmail account, just so I can get applications. I'll find other means, but it is frustrating that everything leads back to Google when you want to do things with this phone.<div class="im">
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<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Doug, I thought all that was needed to access the market was a Google Account, which doesn't require a gmail account. You can create one using any email address you like, then you'll be able to setup Google Checkout so you can buy any app you might want.</div>
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