Comment by sebow

From what i've heard(I am not russian but merely from EE), it doesn't really matter, because as soon as you start to use that hardware/device, "Putin knows" where&what. So the argument doesn't stand.The spyware being removable is "good enough" only if you don't care that the government already knows your IMEI, location,and every other data by the time you get to delete the crapware.

This anti-trust cat & mouse game is really getting old.The device should not have any pre-installed apps choosing one side or the other(the opposite would be to provide all alternatives, which is virtually impossible). In the case 'critical' apps are necessary for the user to do basic operations, the software preinstalled should be entirely FOSS.I fail to see a better alternative than this.