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Re:Google faces Russia Android probe after Yandex protest by solve on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @10:45AM (#9069064)
I my experience, this is not an exaggeration. Most of the top popularity apps expect the Google Play APIs to be present. Have you had the experience that this is no longer the case?
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Re:Google faces Russia Android probe after Yandex protest by DCKing on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:03AM (#9069172)
You have to be specific here.

1) How many apps will flat out refuse to run if Google Services are not present, as opposed to have reduced functionality? Having a dependency on Google's Services library only means that the app will use it if it is available, not that the app will fail if it's not.

2) How many apps use more than the Location / Maps / In-app Purchases API, which are implemented in a compatible way by all of the other parties I mentioned?

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