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Re:Is it futile to un-Google? by zajd on Saturday September 12, 2015 @11:39AM (#10208360)
Yes, Facebook isn't very "useful", but I think you'd have a hard time making the same case about Google's services. Maps, Gmail and Android(assuming iOS/Windows Phone isn't an option) are all hard to beat.
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Re:Is it futile to un-Google? by mehrdada on Saturday September 12, 2015 @03:05PM (#10208947)
> assuming iOS/Windows Phone isn't an option

Well, they are options. If one judges every alternative that might include the tiniest bit of inconvenience as "not an option", any try would be hopeless.

In fact, I would argue Android is the easiest Google product to replace, because it has a perfectly polished competitor like iOS.

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Re:Is it futile to un-Google? by yuvadam on Saturday September 12, 2015 @11:42AM (#10208368)
They all have viable alternatives. I don't miss any of Google's services.
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Re:Is it futile to un-Google? by thrownaway2424 on Saturday September 12, 2015 @12:35PM (#10208499)
"It is not the only useful thing" is a different statement from "It is not useful."
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