XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: invalid@nospam.com   
      
   On 18:43  30 Jan 2016, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 08:13:37 +0000 (UTC), "Alice J."   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Jeff Liebermann wrote in message   
   >>1s5oab9le5bglcpqeb05tnj6f5lmh9s33u@4ax.com:   
   >>   
   >>> Yep, but you can turn it off.   
   >>>    
   >>   
   >>I'm reading your helpful links, but I'm soooo very confused.   
   >   
   > I can only offer sympathy for your confusion.  However, if you ask a   
   > decent question, I can try to answer.   
   >   
   >>I have Android 4.3 that otherwise helpful page assumes you log into   
   >>something called a "Google Account", which, to my knowledge, I don't   
   >>even do. I don't log into anything that I don't have to.   
   >   
   > If you have an Android device, you must have a Google account in order   
   > to operate it.  Usually, it's a gmail.com account.  If you're using   
   > the Google play store, then use that login and password.  None of the   
   > links I provided in my previous rant will work without being logged   
   > into a Google account.   
   >   
   >>On purpose, the only "Google Account" action that I do is I have to   
   >>*define* one, just so that I can download from Google Play. But that's   
   >>it for me. I don't "sign in" to my knowledge, to any Google Account.   
   >   
   > Your phone signs in to your Google account automagically when you are   
   > online.  None of the Google apps and many of the Android features will   
   > not work if you fail to login.   
   >   
   >>Does that mean that "I" don't send Google "my" SSIDs?   
   >   
   > If you turn OFF syncing contacts, email, settings, etc to the Google   
   > cloud, as was previous described, you will NOT be syncing anything to   
   > Google.  However, you may still be logging into your Google account   
   > when you connect to the internet.   
   >   
   > Bottom line:  You cannot effectively use your Android phone if you do   
   > NOT have a working Google account.   
   >   
   >>(I'm so confused.)   
   >   
   > Sometimes, I wonder if even Google understands their own products.   
   >   
      
   Just to make it interesting, there's a difference between a Google Account   
   and a Google Apps account.  Neither needs a Gmail account - although a   
   Google Account comes for free when you register a Gmail account.   
      
   I keep reading articles like this one below but I'm not sure I'm a lot   
   wiser.  I do notice the "a" in "account" is sometimes uppercase and   
   sometimes lowercase and it makes an important distinction which is   
   largely lost on me.   
      
   http://blog.backupify.com/2011/06/29/understanding-your-google-accounts/   
      
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