I naïvely thought that I wasn’t so reliant on the “we have shun our don’t be evil motto” organization (hint G00gle).
How fool I was. I didn’t even have the phone number of my wife saved into my own CardDav address book.
She phoned me to ask about my sprained ankle and my phone didn’t even recognised her call.
The tittle of this piece maybe excessive. I suspect that many proprietary services are similar. Until a few days ago I shunned the golden prison of Apple. Google is no better. Android may be Free Software but being released with a non persistent license it is only instrumental to give Google more power.