Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?

Theo wrote on 01 Jan 2025 10:50:47 +0000 (GMT) :

To use a Fitbit, you need a Google account (unless you have a legacy Fitbit
account from years ago).  To use the Fitbit app you need to sign in with the
Google account, which installs the Google account centrally on the phone,
which means that account infests the rest of the OS and gets used for other
stuff (eg Play Services/Store).
 If your phone vendor supports 'user profiles' you can make a new profile,
add the Google account there. Then it won't interfere with other profiles
and you can terminate the session by logging out after you're done.

Only Theo, so far, seems to understand that simple fact, so everything
said, so far, is off topic except what Theo said about FitBit.
Nobody else who posted seems to understand these are NOT the same thing:
1. An account on the Internet (often which requires a login/password)
2. That account as an integral part of the Android operating system
Those are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS which only Theo understood, sadly.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/x1NZwj5G/account02.jpg>
Think of it this way if you must:
a. A bank app might require an account (which often requires login/passwd)
b. But that bank account is NOT an integral part of the Android OS
Only Theo answered the question on topic.
Nobody else even understood what was being asked (sadly).
 <https://i.postimg.cc/Bnyr9fP1/account01.jpg>