[sgtpepper]

Rant all you want, when you change phones and it all just syncs, it's fucking wonderful. If you don't like it, don't use a Google phone.

[marssaxman]

What's the alternative? iOS seems just as bad.

I use an Android phone, but I've never entered any Google credentials into it. Can't use the Play Store, but I don't really care about apps that much. At least there's F-droid.

[bbzealot]

Talking about security, you can't forget about BlackBerry 10. I love it,it's nice to use and can't see a reason to come back to android (since bb provides an android app compatibility layer too)

[MBCook]

There is always Apple. At least they're not an advertising company.

[kybernetikos]

You can actually do this on a cyanogen mod phone using DavDroid and e.g. an owncloud server.