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This is worse junkware than Apple's compass or stocks apps. Way worse. Hopefully this doesn't begin to happen more often.

• orangecat 16y ago
  I have no doubt that it will. When has marketing ever gotten less intrusive? This is another example of why Google really needs to continue making their own phones with stock Android, no crapware, and no root/ROM restrictions.
  • sprout 16y ago
    I'm definitely beginning to think the Droid will be my last Motorola phone. Even the fact that you can't uninstall Amazon and the core Google apps is a little grating.
• ergo98 16y ago
  I paid $550 for my Nexus One, on which is an Amazon MP3 app that I have no ability to remove. It inexplicably starts up in the background quite frequently as well, for no particular reason. One day I finally gave in and tried to buy some music, to discover that the app is completely useless to me given that I'm in Canada and Amazon doesn't provide even free MP3s here. Very, very shitty of Google. They likely got some chump-change amount from Amazon for doing this (the price of the phone certainly doesn't seem to be subsidized by this junk), but it threatens user trust.
  • RK 16y ago
    I really think they include that to have an on-phone equivalent to the itunes store. But I agree that it should be removable. You can't remove the Facebook app either.
    • tjakab 16y ago
      It looks like the official Twitter app can't be uninstalled from recent Froyo builds either.
• jsdalton 16y ago
  The compass and stocks apps aren't "junkware" in the sense the term is being used in the article (and the HN discussion here).