> if thats the price for all of googles services, I'm down with it! the data collection, or rather the advertisment it enables, is what is paying for all that android development and searchengine servers etc.

That not only completely destroys some of your fundamental rights, but also creates a selective pressure to force others to do the same.

meh, still better than developing a OS and a searchengine by myself! if I thought otherwise I wouldn't use any of google's services. neither should you if you are so concerned by the data they collect. checkout pwniephone, duckduckgo and hushmail: your data will no longer belong to google!