That's what I thought, but there are actually a bunch of Google apps that can't be uninstalled too. My old Galaxy Nexus became unusable as Google services got

That's what I thought, but there are actually a bunch of Google apps that can't be uninstalled too. My old Galaxy Nexus became unusable as Google services got more aggressive (eating all the RAM if background service calls failed due to poor connection). The phone would literally restart in the middle of every third phone call, but the option to uninstall the main culprits like Google Currents was (is?) disabled. Sure I can install cyanogen, but I specifically bought the nexus to save having to do that.