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Re: Privacy. Without physical removal of the wi-fi hardware (and BT and whatever), it is foolish to think any machine made by Google, running a Google OS and apps, provides you with any privacy except entirely at Google's discretion. If you are "unconnected", I guess they know how to store something they want until you are connected. Not that I think Apple or MS are alternatives in this regard.
What I wish would take off, based on a bunch of R&D and market repositioning in response to the current revelations of commercial and gov't intrusion, is FirefoxOS-based systems (phones+tablets+notebooks) that focus on security and privacy. All FOSS, of course.
As it is, Mozilla has nothing to sell to consumers except a "we're cheaper" message, and that's nowhere to be; and there is a desperate need for someone to step up, and maybe enough consumers grasp that, and care, to make a market, although I doubt that last. Mozilla is the only organization that I see that could convincingly occupy that market position.
Android or Chrome, maybe I'm too old-fashioned, but it's teeth-gritting time when someone says I don't need to see the files on the storage system, and it's rebellion time when they say I *can't*. Oh, and there does need to be some provision for substantial local storage for me. Online can be an option, maybe the main one, but there also needs to be a nice internal place for my mp3s and epubs and jpgs and...32GB or 64GB won't cut it.
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