[GtrsRGr8]

Sounds like a good development to me. The Google apps take up so much storage space that I ran out of internal storage pretty quickly and had to add external storage to my phone just to be able to install all of the apps that I actually wanted, and store some items that I wanted to. And I didn't want most of the apps that they had included--it was just bloatware (to put it civilly) to me. When I tried to uninstall some of the Google/Android apps, the apps all gave me the dire warning that uninstalling them could mess up my phone.

The thing that I wonder is why Google/Android/cell phone makers couldn't make a specific phone for "export to the EU only" or "use outside the EU only." Electronics of other similar things, at least ebooks and videos (via "codes") can do that. The only reason that I can think of is that Americans do travel to Europe, and the authorities there might do who-knows-what if a person actually used, or tried to use, their U.S. cellphone.