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> PureOS
Librem is another example of failure. They missed their deadlines completely and now shipping hand-made devices with flaws just to save some face about deadlines again. Yet they still try to present that project as success, hiding problems.
Although their goal (free software + hardware) was too big from small company anyway. Jolla, for example, had bootstrap from former Nokia and did not care about hardware openness, yet they failed too.
Another example is Planet Computers. My friend ordered their Cosmo communicator, they missed everything, shipped with errors (used shipping method that cannot be used for personal orders, for example). And linux on their device works only partially.
I guess successful non-android phone project is a myth, at least in present times.
> How do you deal with all those Google applications?
I stopped caring, because I don't put much specific personal data on phone. Installed half of apps from f-droid, disabled everything that I don't need (all these voice activations etc). There is still google, of course, but I don't think that it is more dangerous than using google mail and search - google already knows things that it may find on my phone. Using some local apps like yandex navigator already gives your data to third parties, so whatever (and it has no real alternatives).