[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Google Supports Google's Proprietary GMail Offline Sync Protocol, ActiveSync, POP3, and IMAP4. There is a difference. Just like there is a difference between Hotmail's support for ActiveSync, DeltaSync, and POP3 on WP7.

They Sync it with ActiveSync. Google Services on Android do not Sync with ActiveSync. Gmail Can, but it's not the default option nor is it the optimal option because ActiveSync does not see Labels among other things. Google Talk is integrated into your GMail mailbox and that does not work over ActiveSync. Other Google Services use the same protocol to sync data on Android, and that protocol is not ActiveSync. Running a second Google Account in the ActiveSync Client instead of the Gmail Client has a factorably negative impact on battery life, even...

Also, how is it biased? I'm not talking about using Google on WP7. I'm comparing Support for Cloud Services on Microsoft (with Live) to Google (with their Google Services).

Android has much better support for Google Services than Microsoft has for its Live Services. And it had better support for those services at launch than Microsoft has for their Live services at launch.

My argument isn't ridiculous, you just seem to lack reading comprehension... In droves...

The Exchange Client is the ActiveSync client. ActiveSync is a protocol. The Exchange client is an application. Applications integrate. Applications support protocols. Protocols are protocols - means of transferring information over the internet. Don't try to play the semantics game with me.

Bold: Then why are you writing this post riddled with errors?

Italics: That's a common way to make it seem like it's okay....

Microsoft billed WP7 as a consumer OS for the rest of us with great social networking and support for Microsoft services.

The social networking isn't that good, and the support for Microsoft services really isn't all that great. That's the point.

Most people don't use WP7 and probably don't plan to use WP7, and coming to a comclusion regarding who "cares" about this stuff from WP7 users is just... dumb.

Google Services user base and Android explosion speak to the contrary, however.

I just found out that I can subscribe to an RSS Feed in Windows Live. I also just found out that while the new Blog Posts are posted to my profile for everyone else to see, I cannot see them myself on my Windows Phone in either the Me or People Hub.

Android has a Google Reader App with Push Support for that.

Lots of people use Favorites. It allows you to organize data in some applications automatically, like the Way Microsoft Messenger Social (Web or Thick Client WLM Social Integration) automatically prioritizes social updates/media from Favorite contacts and displays them more prominently than everyone else (who isn't a favorite). It can also allow you to filter large contact lists in a way that your favorite contacts (i.e. those you most often communicate with) show up at the top of the list when they would otherwise by at the bottom in i.e. an alphabetical list.

Do you actually use your phone seriously? Or just as a casual plaything? Seriously...

Starred emails are the same as Flagged emails. Tons (TONS) of people use them. To claim otherwise, is just retarded. They are just stars instead of flags. You can have different color flags, or stars, etc. Lots of people use them. They are yet another means of categorization which allow people to organize their inboxes even further.

Live Tiles on WP7 are inconsistent so having the weather display in the calendar is useful. Even though I have Beautiful Widgets, I like having the weather in the calendar. Not cause I absolutely can't live with out it, but because it's somewhat practical. It means that if I'm in the Calendar and want to know what the weather will be like on a certain day, I don't have to back out and open another application to see this information. It's RIGHT there. If you actually think about it, it makes perfect sense... Not sure you can even think at this point, however...

Has nothing to do with Hotmail...

Hotmail doesn't support Conversations in the Web App, but Microsoft has implemented Conversation view for pretty much all emails in Outlook and Windows Live Mail irregardless of where the email comes from - it's even on by default in WLMail. It's not about Hotmail features. Again, read the post (again). It's about the actual email client application. Unified Inbox is the same way. Not having it, pretty much makes managing email for some people a hassle by default (no one ever forces you to use it if you think you don't need it... continue wasting space on your home screen with a tile for each email account thx).

1. The Gmail App supports Priority Inbox, that was pushed out MONTHS ago...

2. I don't necessarily care which is better. They are different. I use both. I can care less.

3. It's not about simple mail synching. It's about services integration as a whole. It just happens that most of these companies center much of their services around their Online PIM (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, etc.) offering (i.e. the way GTalk and WLM now integrate into GMail/Hotmail, and SkyDrive/Hotmail Gmail/GDoc integration).

Again... Android supports Push Synching for:

Gmail / Calendar / Contacts

Google Talk

Maps/Latitude

Reader

Books

Chrome to Phone

Buzz

Blogger

YouTube

Picasa

Soon they will have Media (Music) Synching, among other things.

It's not simply about mail, it's about how well they support their services portfolio on their platform. Better than anyone else right now. Do I use every service or care about every service? No. But what I do care about, they do better than what a Vanilla ActiveSync connection can provide (and at a significant battery life savings, as well).

My issue is not the quality of the Windows Live Services. I think Hotmail has improved tremendously and use it as my main email address. I prefer it's Web Interface, even. Docs cannot even compare to Office Web Apps and WLM is superior to Google Talk. Ditching Spaces and shoveling users to WordPress was a good solution by Microsoft.

None of that matters to me.

What concerns me is the weak integration of those services into a phone OS that was marketed largely to consumers, and Microsoft miled "Windows Live" for all its worth when they marketed WP7 (the integration, etc.).

Windows Live is barely integrated with WP7. Any phone with an Exchange Client can achieve just as good Hotmail integration as WP7. Google's advantage is that its product provides a much superior experience to their services than anything else. Microsoft can't say the same.

That's my point. Even if someone users Windows Live, what will make them want to get a WP7 device? For a heavy Google Services users, Android is the de facto choice, but Microsoft failed to capitalize on their Windows Live/Hotmail user base (which is larger than Google's Gmail user base) by offering a compelling and clearly superior user experience with their own services over the competition...