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A few years back Lockscreen was identified as one of the most underutilized real estate on the mobile phone. So a lot of phone companies started selling it to t
by distant_hat 8y ago
A few years back Lockscreen was identified as one of the most underutilized real estate on the mobile phone. So a lot of phone companies started selling it to the highest bidder. While Samsung shouldn't be needing it, a lot of the lower end Chinese companies make razor thin margins on the phones, even if a company offered $1-3 for pre-installing an always running app that would show ads to users, they'd happily take it.
- sk0g 8y agoI doubt it's the Samsung launcher/ lock screen showing ads though. I remember a particular lock screen I tried out that was great. Functional, beautiful... Except, you know, when it showed an ad on half the lock screen. Yeah, fuck that. But a less tech savvy person might just go "well this is fine, I guess that's just how it is", and live with it.