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There is no way to uninstall Chrome from Android, the best one can do is disable it. Smells like MSFT and IE back in the day. Which lead to what will probably

by sova 6y ago

There is no way to uninstall Chrome from Android, the best one can do is disable it. Smells like MSFT and IE back in the day. Which lead to what will probably be very similar hearings and results.

mullingitover 6y ago
There's an extremely easy way to uninstall Chrome from Android, which is to never install it in the first place. You do that by using the Android open source project. There are a bunch of Android forks in the wild[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distrib...
- nobody9999 6y ago
  >There are a bunch of Android forks in the wild[1]. That's absolutely correct. And some of those forks are significantly better than the Android OEM offerings by the phone manufacturers. However, that's orthogonal to GP's point. Only a very small percentage[0] of Android users would even consider flashing custom roms, and even fewer would have the knowledge or confidence to do so. As such, the impact of custom roms/no chrome is most likely rounding error for Google. I'd point out that I've used custom roms quite a bit, initially because (as usual) my phone vendor stopped providing updates after a year and after that because custom roms are often better than stock roms. But I'm not your typical user, as I'm technical and it really pisses me off that vendors use the lack of support to pressure folks to buy new phones. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19943324/how-many-users-are-on-custom-roms https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19943324/how-many-users-... (an old link, but it's not likely that much has changed to increase the number of folks using custom roms -- quite likely the opposite)
- sova 6y ago
  Nice, just root the phone, awesome and straightforward ?
- valeness 6y ago
  Doesn't this violate the ToS for a lot of phones and providers?

by sova 6y ago

There is no way to uninstall Chrome from Android, the best one can do is disable it. Smells like MSFT and IE back in the day. Which lead to what will probably be very similar hearings and results.

mullingitover 6y ago

There's an extremely easy way to uninstall Chrome from Android, which is to never install it in the first place. You do that by using the Android open source project. There are a bunch of Android forks in the wild[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distrib...

nobody9999 6y ago
>There are a bunch of Android forks in the wild[1]. That's absolutely correct. And some of those forks are significantly better than the Android OEM offerings by the phone manufacturers. However, that's orthogonal to GP's point. Only a very small percentage[0] of Android users would even consider flashing custom roms, and even fewer would have the knowledge or confidence to do so. As such, the impact of custom roms/no chrome is most likely rounding error for Google. I'd point out that I've used custom roms quite a bit, initially because (as usual) my phone vendor stopped providing updates after a year and after that because custom roms are often better than stock roms. But I'm not your typical user, as I'm technical and it really pisses me off that vendors use the lack of support to pressure folks to buy new phones. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19943324/how-many-users-are-on-custom-roms https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19943324/how-many-users-... (an old link, but it's not likely that much has changed to increase the number of folks using custom roms -- quite likely the opposite)
sova 6y ago
Nice, just root the phone, awesome and straightforward ?
valeness 6y ago
Doesn't this violate the ToS for a lot of phones and providers?