I'm evaluating the Cliq. I figure this way I can get a sense of the OS in a package I can return. If I hate it, it goes back. If I totally fall for the OS maybe I return it and get an unlocked Droid, which I won't be able to return.

So far I'm grumpy about the lack of native OS X integration. And I don't have a primary gmail account with all my contacts. Although I do have a gmail account for my phone I'll populate if I can work out how.

It bums me out because gmail is my private email.

Oh, it's fuckery, no doubt.

I wonder what the motivation was--a new geek toy that didn't get thought through? A marketing decision where opt out was thought perfectly viable, even if it's something you have to read up on to work out how to do?

I'm still not entirely sure why I want a Buzz. Why it's different from Twitter or Facebook statuses or even Google Wave. And know what! So not going to bother looking, since it doesn't seem you can experiment without poking holes in the fabric.

I wonder what the motivation was--a new geek toy that didn't get thought through?

I'm guessing this.

I'm mainly surprised to learn that apparently nobody at Google has ever used Facebook, or surely they would have realized that an opt-out model is never a good idea! (Especially when opting out is so fiendishly difficult - why no Google Buzz settings tab, for instance? And *especially* when you're talking about publishing people's private email addresses!!!)

I'm mainly surprised to learn that apparently nobody at Google has ever used Facebook

Or even heard of the concept.

I also don't know why they need Buzz when they have Wave (though I still don't actually understand how Wave works, either).

The reason I jumped on Gmail back in the day was that it was so SIMPLE. They really need to stop complicating my shit up.

I've worked out how to synch iCal with Google calendars. Because of the presence of the Missing Sync product for Android I'm assuming there's no simple way to synch OS X contacts with Google contacts?

You can sync your Mac address book with Google, too.

How? I'm not seeing instructions that don't assume I have an iPhone.

Enable Google contact sync without an iPhone or iPod Touch

Yeah--I posted upthread ( ita "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Jan 25, 2010 8:40:08 pm PST) about that. It's not exposing the Google option to me. I've tried with two different iPods.

Have you made it work?