A few months ago I'd have been happily hitting the downvote button along with everyone else, mumbling to myself about how crazy you sound. Today, however, I wish you weren't being downvoted because you're half way to being right.
I strongly doubt the intent of things like Google Cloud Messaging is to intercept all your data and siphon it off to the NSA, GHCQ, and others. GCM is an incredibly useful service that has been designed to make it easier to write apps that use less power by eliminating polling. When you don't have to poll you can keep the mobile radio in a low power state. But the trouble is, you are indeed passing data (possibly even sensitive data!) through Google data centers when you're using GCM and it's equivalents.
The tech industry seems to trust Google less today than it did this time last year in light of the Snowden leaks, and quite rightly so.
I'm not even considering that perspective. I'm just wary of the neofuedalist movement of technology in the last ten years or so, fueled by the mobile platforms being subject to regulatory capture.
The fact that data being captured by intelligence communities already shows you who owns this "land" and considers the "natural resources" theirs for the pillaging, this is a great example of the kind of neofeudalism this proposed platform is building. We just rent the internet, the data that it generates is for the kings and gods.
The fact that these so called mobile platforms leave so much complexity to be managed by the developer just goes to show that these so called platforms are simply land grabs and don't actually offer anything to the developer except his software locked down to a single platform. They don't need to offer any service, just a rent collecting system for their captured land.
I strongly doubt the intent of things like Google Cloud Messaging is to intercept all your data and siphon it off to the NSA, GHCQ, and others. GCM is an incredibly useful service that has been designed to make it easier to write apps that use less power by eliminating polling. When you don't have to poll you can keep the mobile radio in a low power state. But the trouble is, you are indeed passing data (possibly even sensitive data!) through Google data centers when you're using GCM and it's equivalents.
The tech industry seems to trust Google less today than it did this time last year in light of the Snowden leaks, and quite rightly so.