It's especially strange, given the amount of effort the blog author went to, to add Google apps back to their de-googled phone. Having started on this path, in

It's especially strange, given the amount of effort the blog author went to, to add Google apps back to their de-googled phone. Having started on this path, in my opinion it's a losing battle and a waste of time. Google have thousands of engineers just waiting to patch whatever hack you are using in your "de-googled" phone. Android serves the purposes of its creator.