A true step forward would be to encourage third-party app developers to stop requiring access to the Google Services.
A lot of people don't know that, beside the Android OS, Google also offers some hard to avoid services like their Notification Services.
In order not to keep all apps opened at all times, many apps are using Google servers to send and receive notifications even when the apps are completely closed.
Without the Google services, most apps can't receive notifications.
The apps developed by Facebook circumvent this by installing some hidden background services and using their own servers instead of Google's servers.
The default notification system is not configurable at all.
It would be quite nice for Google to develop a standard that can be implemented by any developer using their own servers or by subscribing to some alternative third party servers (as a service).
I don't expect Google to do this unless, some Government entity forces them.
If this would become the standard, then most modern apps released on the Play Store could run on any google-less phone.
Yet this remains a big 'IF' which is currently preventing any considerable adoptation of a google-less phone.
In my opinion, their apps/services should follow an opt-in behaviour and allow the complete functionality of a phone without them.
Currently, you can easily get most Play Store apps from 'Aurora Store', yet most of them would not properly work without the Google Services.
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A true step forward would be to encourage third-party app developers to stop requiring access to the Google Services.
A lot of people don't know that, beside the Android OS, Google also offers some hard to avoid services like their Notification Services. In order not to keep all apps opened at all times, many apps are using Google servers to send and receive notifications even when the apps are completely closed.
Without the Google services, most apps can't receive notifications. The apps developed by Facebook circumvent this by installing some hidden background services and using their own servers instead of Google's servers.
The default notification system is not configurable at all. It would be quite nice for Google to develop a standard that can be implemented by any developer using their own servers or by subscribing to some alternative third party servers (as a service).
I don't expect Google to do this unless, some Government entity forces them.
If this would become the standard, then most modern apps released on the Play Store could run on any google-less phone.
Yet this remains a big 'IF' which is currently preventing any considerable adoptation of a google-less phone.
In my opinion, their apps/services should follow an opt-in behaviour and allow the complete functionality of a phone without them.
Currently, you can easily get most Play Store apps from 'Aurora Store', yet most of them would not properly work without the Google Services.