I can only speak of myself, but I don't feel that stop using Google's products would be that hard. I have already two other e-mail accounts which I use in different context, and I actually use different clients for each (pine and mutt via ssh, and gmail's web-interface for gmail). Bing maps is already better in some places than Google's, so I use them both. I'm not liking Google's new image search at all, and I'm beginning to think if I should begin to use Bing's, as it has provided more accurate results (in the cases I have tried it), and has better UI (imho). The list goes on...
The most problematic thing to replace would atm be Android. Nokia's offerings aren't quite there yet, Apple would require bit different mindset, and Windows Mobile is...well Windows Mobile. But I'm not sure if it would be that bad to step back to bit dumber phones (meaning mainly Symbian here). Although I haven't even tried any Android device, so maybe it has something amazing what I haven't realized.
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I can only speak of myself, but I don't feel that stop using Google's products would be that hard. I have already two other e-mail accounts which I use in different context, and I actually use different clients for each (pine and mutt via ssh, and gmail's web-interface for gmail). Bing maps is already better in some places than Google's, so I use them both. I'm not liking Google's new image search at all, and I'm beginning to think if I should begin to use Bing's, as it has provided more accurate results (in the cases I have tried it), and has better UI (imho). The list goes on...
The most problematic thing to replace would atm be Android. Nokia's offerings aren't quite there yet, Apple would require bit different mindset, and Windows Mobile is...well Windows Mobile. But I'm not sure if it would be that bad to step back to bit dumber phones (meaning mainly Symbian here). Although I haven't even tried any Android device, so maybe it has something amazing what I haven't realized.