[chii]

so instead of tying you down to the device, they tie you down to their services. In my eyes, thats not too different.

At least with a physical device, you may be able to subvert any ill intentions.

[icebraining]

They do? Then they do a crappy job at it, since when I moved out of Gmail and GReader and when I get something on Google Docs, I could export my data in standard formats.

You should really tell them they're screwing their tying down plans with their Data Liberation initiative, the Google Takeout and all those APIs.