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My peeve is that even when Windows came with all the bloatware crap that was bundled by OEMs there was a way to uninstall it. On Android you have all these apps

by yogo 13y ago

My peeve is that even when Windows came with all the bloatware crap that was bundled by OEMs there was a way to uninstall it. On Android you have all these apps (Facebook and the like) that you often can't uninstall without rooting the device. I guess that's just some of the poison that comes with it being open: carriers can do even worse than with Windows.

rwmj 13y ago
Microsoft used to strictly control the look and feel of the desktop, so OEMs were not permitted to add a new desktop or uninstallable software. The equivalent of TouchWiz wouldn't have been possible on Windows. References: http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/11/no_surrender_gates_draws/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/11/no_surrender_gates_d... http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/22/phoenix_readies_plan_to_subvert/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/22/phoenix_readies_plan...
- tanzam75 13y ago
  > Microsoft used to strictly control the look and feel of the desktop, so OEMs were not permitted to add a new desktop or uninstallable software. That ended after the antitrust case. As part of the settlement, Microsoft was required to allow OEMs to preload anything they wanted on PCs. It doesn't matter if it's bloatware or a new shell -- Microsoft can't say no to any of it. For example, Lenovo is now preloading Pokki on many of its Windows 8 PCs. While the antitrust settlement was binding only on Microsoft, other OS vendors will now look at the Microsoft example to see what restrictions they're allowed to get away with.
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