I don't care for Apple because of this. But, I don't care for Google because of its insatiable appetite to track every thought and action a person has ever considered - including breaking into their WiFi network from their specially equipped vans that are taking pictures of every thing in sight - harvesting all of the personal information they can get their little Orwellian sniffer on (passwords, private emails, contact lists, programs installed, IP and MAC addresses)...
Then again, Gmail is good enough for our CIA Director - so what do I know?
Yeah, look where that secure email got him. LOL!
You might have an argument there if game consoles did not exist.
What about the game consoles? Those are extremely closed off.
That is a very scary thought. GMAIL reads every email that passes through it's servers, and any attachments that are in those emails. It then uses an algorithm to direct marketing spam to people based on key words it finds.
It is entirely possible that within the gmail servers, there are proprietary documents that people don't even know about. What's more, there might be national security documents in there!