Can iPhone survive without Google Apps and Services?

Youtube on iPhone makes so much money for Google, they arent removing it. But yes they could survive without Google

This had nothing to do with SW. Moving

@xantufrog: Actually, this is more towards Mobile Connection forum since this is fully discussing iPhone related. double moving this from OT. (Off-Topic)

Well iPhone Vs Android was good here

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Generally, different platforms can survive with their own ecosystem if they are able to fill the immediate needs of their customers.

There is a benefit to the market when there is some exclusivity. This opens up opportunities for cross platform third party solutions to become competitivenand popularized. They can be advertised to a wider user base and be recommended across all users, and be attractive as a way for all to share/collaborate/recommend. This also takes some of the control away from the first party and offers competition on their home turf. Anticompetitive measures also become challenged by third parties and by the competition.

I think any platform can survive this way. Is there any reason OP is specifically mentioning iPhone?

Personally I already live without both Google and Apple services and I don't see a problem with doing that.

Anyway even if apps are gone, it doesn't remove web sites from the internet, and anything with a browser will work.

iPhone was originally designed to not use apps and only use web sites. If you wanted something as an "app", you would create a "web clipping" which was basically highlighting part of a web site, and assigning that to an icon. Tapping that icon would bring up that cut out part of the web site for you to use. It was basically like PWAs.

It was only after developers bothered Apple enough that they allowed apps in the first place, and they still didn't allow apps to use all of the APIs that were available, and devs had to fight for that too.

And you still aren't allowed to develop something that directly competes with an Apple offering, which is why other browser engines aren't allowed. (Like how you aren't allowed to use Microsoft Visual Studio to develop a competitor to Microsoft Office).