Comment by plantain
4 days ago
If only this was applied evenly. Why is every Samsung/LG/literally every non-Pixel device full of uninstallable crapware?
4 days ago
If only this was applied evenly. Why is every Samsung/LG/literally every non-Pixel device full of uninstallable crapware?
You mean un-uninstallable crapware? This has at least a technical reason: Preloaded apps are part of the read-only system image and cannot be removed. "Disabling" should be equivalent, though.
It's not just preloaded apps, though. A few months ago I prepared a Lenovo tablet for an elderly friend, and if I had just tapped through the OOBE wizard (which presented pages upon pages of optional crapware) without reading, it would have installed 20-30 preselected "popular" apps, mostly games. I had to manually deselect every single one.
Even getting Amazon tablet that’s specifically designed for children comes with useless apps you just cannot get rid off, because they need to shove all their services into your mouth hoping you will accidentally swallow at least some of them. There used to be time when every company had a mission statement and some (sometimes silly) ambitions, today it’s all just money, nothing else, not even a pretending anymore.
None of those companies have the market power Google does.
This is really important. Unless it's straight up fraud or a safety issue, most market participants are totally allowed to ship garbage (who are we to judge?).
At some point when monopoly power tests start turning true then the bar is raised (as it should be).