What can I say, I never liked google services. Simple as that.
But don't get me wrong I am not a ****** of any kind, I just dislike Google's services!
When android 1.0 officially released ,I really liked the promise of the OS and everything about its openness and
freedom, but at the time, the hardware wasn't able to perform smoothly so I waited for more devices to roll with this OS.
So my first true smartphone was an xperia X10 mini ,one of the most bizarre little pieces of tech of the recent smartphone era!
With Android 1.6, a truly original launcher, and very speedy overall, the experience with that phone was AMAZING..
Anyway after more Android devices passing from my hands ,the appearance of Google's bloat was becoming more and more ''in your face''.
I never used Google+ ,Google now, drive and many many other services ,so why do I have to have them
in my phone eating up resources without ever using them!?
At that point I was tired of having to root every device to get rid of the google stuff.
The only Google services I currently use are :
- Google search (for the times duckduckgo and bing are letting me down)
- Gmail account which I created due to android (anything not important goes there)
- Youtube , yep, there was a time when Google had no relation with this service.!
That's all the Google thing for me folks!
From there I have :
HERE maps,drive,transport for maps and GPS,
Opera on PC , IE on Lumia,
Duckduckgo on PC, Bing on Lumia and
Microsoft translator for the times I'm cluelles with some words!
I'm not making compromises because I want alternatives for the Google services,
I just never used them because these are my preferred ones,
so I guess I won't say ''bye bye, Google''