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It's the same argument as with Microsoft vs. the EU regarding IE: Defaults are important when you have a monopoly.
by jhasse 8y ago
It's the same argument as with Microsoft vs. the EU regarding IE: Defaults are important when you have a monopoly.
- joshuamorton 8y agoI'm pretty sure that an important part of the Microsoft argument was that you couldn't uninstall ie and it was used by certain system functions even if you set a different default. That's an important distinction. (Im a Googler, but that's not particularly relevant to this comment)
- jhasse 8y agoI can't uninstall Chrome on my LG Android phone either.
- joshuamorton 8y agoNo, but you can fully disable it (and that's equivalent to uninstalling, and wasn't possible on windows).
- datalist 8y agoThat is certainly not the equivalent as it still occupies storage. Also, you could actually uninstall IE. That only uninstalled the shell, not the libraries (as there were dependencies) but it was gone in terms of the application.