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Banks, payment apps, many apps that shows google maps in their ui breaks without play service. Some use it to auto read verification SMS. Countless more… Google won!
WhatsApp does not need play services. It may be necessary for cloud backups and stuff…but you can do local backups instead… Play service is not a hard requirement.
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honestly why does one even need google services for? eveyrthing works fine without it in my experience
Banks, payment apps, many apps that shows google maps in their ui breaks without play service. Some use it to auto read verification SMS. Countless more… Google won!
people needs to understand that they don’t need an app for every damn thing.
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WhatsApp does not need play services. It may be necessary for cloud backups and stuff…but you can do local backups instead… Play service is not a hard requirement.
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whatsapp works fine in my experience