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Re:A Message to Our Customers by noarchy on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:37AM (#11117128)
It is true that you can get Play Store apps without a Google Account, but the Place Services framework does a lot more than this. Many apps rely upon the framework for certain pieces of functionality from Google's libraries.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers by ionised on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:48AM (#11117173)
You mean Google Apps specifically?

I don't use them personally but I imagine Goole Now, GMail and Google Maps would need Play Services.

The apps I do use (non-google) tend to function well enough without Play Services though.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by thelibrarian on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:22PM (#11121518)
Many Android apps include the Google Play Services framework in themselves, as they provide extra functionality that is not in the baseline Android API, e.g. a JSON parser.
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