It's ironic that one of the features which originally motivated my switch to Google was the way they didn't seem to care whether I got an account or not. I've almost completely stopped using any of their services now that they're so pushy about getting you to log in.

This includes Android phones: I don't know why people claim that they can't be used without a Google account, because I'm on my second, I've never put any Google account credentials into either one, and they've worked just fine. Can't use the app store, but I don't care about that anyway.