However, you can actually disable pre installed apps in Android, with some exceptions (AFAIK, none of the Google services apps are in those exceptions). Disabl

However, you can actually disable pre installed apps in Android, with some exceptions (AFAIK, none of the Google services apps are in those exceptions). Disabling an app is almost the same as uninstalling (the app can't be open, does not run in background, etc.), however since they are pre installed applications they are still present in /system partition (not a problem since /system is not available for users data anyway).