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The pre-installed software is the ad. The software manufacturer hopes that consumers will buy their subscription or full priced software. After all, people bel
by avianlyric 5y ago
The pre-installed software is the ad. The software manufacturer hopes that consumers will buy their subscription or full priced software.
After all, people believe they need antivirus software to stay safe (the fact antivirus software can be worse than the virus doesn’t change people beliefs) so why not buy the one that’s already installed on their PC?
Or another way of looking at it, Google pays Apple billions each year to make Google the default search engine on iOS, because Google recognises the power of defaults i.e. people are lazy and will use/buy whatever’s in front of them to avoid doing any work looking for alternatives.
- danudey 5y agoI once set up a new Dell system, and it took something like 30 minutes to actually start and get to the desktop, and then a huge amount of time afterwards answering "yes I for really really real don't want your stupid demo" to a dozen pop-ups, and then another hour of uninstalling all the crap it had. I cannot imagine anyone non-technical having to go through that and deal with BS like daily pop-ups "reminding" you to renew your subscription because "your PC is not protected" and so on. It's honestly asinine, but hey, just buy a Mac or a Linux Dell I guess.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y agoWhen I bought a laptop in 2012, the first thing I did was wipe the drive and install Windows from scratch. If I were to do that today, I'd do the same thing.