The only thing you have to do is uninstall the Google apps you mean, handicapping your phone. The Android platform itself is designed to siphon as much data as

The only thing you have to do is uninstall the Google apps you mean, handicapping your phone. The Android platform itself is designed to siphon as much data as possible: contacts, pictures, locations, wifi hotspot information, etc. If you think that you can avoid Google's greed for data just by not using GMail you are way way behind in the game and your misleading comment is harming others which might now feel safe using what is essentially a very evolved spyware OS. Sure, Google are nice and won't steal your credit card number and purchase stuff with it. They just take every bit of info they can get their hands on.