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Since many of the google services are for generic things like notifications and location, I've heard it can spoof at least some of those. I was more asking whet

• ocdtrekkie 7y ago
  The challenge is that "notifications" tend to be treated like a service now. Push notifications delivered "from an app" actually come from Google services to your device. Which is why sometimes you get a notification "from an app", and open the app, and it still has to sync before it shows what you were notified of already. To replace Google in this transaction, the app developer would need to pipe their notification pushes to your alternative server. Amazon and Microsoft have both played with replacing Google's location API, basically by using their own location service but formatting it like a response from Google though. On the Fire Phone/Kindle line, and Microsoft's Android layer they built and abandoned for Windows Phone respectively.