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They are running on my two android phones (4.2, 4.4 and 6.0). Android tries to scare me off stopping them will not allow me to disable most of them. I do not n
by bigbugbag 9y ago
They are running on my two android phones (4.2, 4.4 and 6.0).
Android tries to scare me off stopping them will not allow me to disable most of them.
I do not need play services, why would I need it for ? I'm not even sure what this does apart from insta-gobbling my 50Mo monthly data plan downloading updates I don't want and cannot cancel of applications I do not use.
- vetinari 9y agoPlay Services is a framework, used by other apps, includes handling Google Accounts and push notifications (and this is only the top of the iceberg). Without it, your device would become Kindle-like, and all the apps that do not run on Kindle (or other, Google-less Android versions) would not run on yours too. On my personal phone (Sony), I have only Play Services, Play Store, Gmail, Hangouts, Maps and Youtube enabled. All the other are disabled, including the 'Google' app.
- vageli 9y ago> Without it, your device would become Kindle-like, and all the apps that do not run on Kindle (or other, Google-less Android versions) would not run on yours too. I take issue with this statement. Many apps which "depend" on play services work fine on my Google-free android. Some examples are tutanota, duo lingo, and some games. Though it's not an easy path, I wouldn't consider my cellphone experience "kindle-like".