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		_khau on Feb 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Message to Our Customers 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.

thelibrarian on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

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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