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> This is not true at all Come on, not true at all ? Admittedly Samsung might be able to ship with their browser as default. I don't remember what browser was
by brmgb 6y ago
> This is not true at all
Come on, not true at all ?
Admittedly Samsung might be able to ship with their browser as default. I don't remember what browser was the main one when I bought my last phone. They most definitely have to have Chrome installed (and probably as the system web view) like the rest of the Google apps if they want to ship with the Play Store.
I don't think it significantly impacts my main point.
- izacus 6y agoYes, it has to be installed, but there's a world of difference between having do be default like Safari on iOS and being present while another browser is the default.
- tpxl 6y agoWhile Google mandated their apps, AFAIK Chrome wasn't one of them. My Note 1 has plenty of google garbage, but no chrome.
- detaro 6y agoIf you really mean a Note 1, it came out before Google started that requirement in 2012. If you mean a Note 10, those came out after Google announced they would stop the requirement in 2018 in reaction to the EU antitrust case (which specifically called out the enforced Chrome bundling as one of the things being punished)