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"Cheaper phones tend to use the Android Open Source Platform (AOSP) and come with anywhere between 100 and 400 pre-installed apps – all it takes is infecting on

• mcsniff 4y ago
  Considering every single Android phone "uses" AOSP, I have a hard time taking this article seriously as more than simply fear mongering for Trend Micro. Yes, many low-end cheap devices come with malware and should be used with caution, but 400 extra "apps"? I'd love to see the data, cause I think not.
  • fatfingerd 4y ago
    Using AOSP is in contrast to being a google partner with certified devices, play store, and their questionable scanning tool. In countries where Play isn't the popular store, cheaper devices haven't gone through the partner certification rules, which maybe catch some particularly silly stuff.. People may think of user visible apps, but there are hundreds of packages to remove from a new phone and they have permissions and the possibility of being launched to handle requests from other apps, etc.
  • valianteffort 4y ago
    AOSP is Android without the google botnet stuff. If you are using an Android device that has play store it's got google's frameworks and apps running on top of AOSP. Think of AOSP like chromium, and your typical android firmware like Chrome.
• mcraiha 4y ago
  Most of those apps aren't user launchable from launcher apps. And since most people don't really understand that there are more apps in the Android phones that the ones you can see in the launcher, they might not see that there is something wrong.
• Georgelemental 4y ago
  If every package in the Settings list counts as an "app" (including many, many system services), then maybe.