> A company like Facebook will buy a spot on Samsung's system partition, where it can get more intrusive system permissions that aren't granted to app store app

> A company like Facebook will buy a spot on Samsung's system partition, where it can get more intrusive system permissions that aren't granted to app store apps, letting it more effectively spy on users. Wow! I never thought about this! If it is true that pre-installed apps will have a VIP, sudo-like permissions that are not granted to user-installed apps, then, they should be permanently disabled (since technically, you can't uninstall them), or at least, the ones having a proven spying record in the past.