This [0] is why we both need something like MicroG, and why Google will never allow it to succeed. I realize it's an old story, but it shows Google's ruthlessness in protecting platform dominance, even against a single-digit percentage Windows Phone platform. Even if MicroG ships good, working code, Google will break it. And if MicroG fixes that, Google will break it again, until the people writing MicroG give up.

I'd love open options instead of Google's services, but when 95% of your revenue is advertising, you have to own the platform, and Google does.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/15/4625502/microsoft-responds...