> as long as they don't depend on the Google services A surprising and hilarious number of things, including some of Google's own apps, show "X won't work unle

> as long as they don't depend on the Google services A surprising and hilarious number of things, including some of Google's own apps, show "X won't work unless you enable Google Play Services" popups and then continue working just fine. (I'm guessing they link against some client library that shows that on all function calls, but then doesn't throw an exception.)