[chiller]

All the more reason, AB. I’ve gotten along quite well without any of the Alphabet brands/products listed, save a rare Youtube visit. It helps.. I suppose.. that I live in a total Apple world. Maps has been most useful...I doubt Apple uses google’s maps

[Alas Babylon!]

Apple uses several Google/Alphabet products, actually:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-cloud-platform-icloud-confirmation

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/apple-switches-from-bing-to-google-for-siri-web-search-results-on-ios-and-spotlight-on-mac/?renderMode=ie11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2018/04/28/apple-ceases-production-of-airport-routers-use-google-wifi-instead/#3381819013fe

I’m sorry, but if you use the Internet or a computing device, you cannot avoid Google’s slimy tentacles.