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Yes I do, it just comes from Apple themselves. There are several icons you can't get rid of on the iphone for apple products and services.
I hope you're trolling or joking. Comparing a Pizza Hut bookmark with iOS built-in apps, just wow. I mean, I knew Apple haters were dense but this is excessive.
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No. It's a Samsung problem. You don't see crapware on iPhones do you?
Yes I do, it just comes from Apple themselves. There are several icons you can't get rid of on the iphone for apple products and services.
However bad you think Apple might be, Samsung is far, far worse, just much less successful and slick about it. I had thought the old adage about "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" was only believed by halfwits, apparently I was wrong.
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Comparing oranges with oranges - you compare the "bundle" cost with the price you'd pay if you simply took the phone on credit from any electronics shop with the same upfront payment and length of contract, and added a cheap no-handset mobile plan. The phone qualifies as "subsidized" only if buying it from your mobile company turns out cheaper than if buying it separately. Generally it isn't.
Where do I obtain one of these "cheap no-handset mobile plans" on my carrier of choice?
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There is a difference between default apps and apps for which the manufacturer was paid to put on the phone in order to advertise to the purchaser. Apple does not get paid by another company to load its default apps onto the phone.
What do you call newsstand? It's a purely magazine advertising service. Would PizzaHut app be acceptable if it was called PizzaStand and allowed you to select from multiple pizza vendors?
That would transform PizzaHut from an obnoxious ad ("seller oriented") to a genuinely useful option I would probably use on occasion ("customer oriented").
I dislike intrusive ads (and spending good money on a physical gadget just to be met by "congratulations, and incidentally you've also bought into a lifelong relationship with this pizza vendor" is intrusive).
But I don't mind being told that "newspapers are here, food is over there"; I might even find it useful at some point.
I still think it would be nice if Apple would let me hide the non-deletable apps I don't use: Let me hide the newsstand icon, pop it up again if I ever decide to subcribe to a newspaper.
But the newsstand doesn't grate me the way a permanent link to any particular magazine would. Any particular magazine is unlikely to be my favorite, it might even be one I hate. That doesn't imply that I hate magazines, newsstands, pizza or food in general.
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This is disappointing -- I really like my barebones brother laser printer, I thought they might be one of the few honest printer manufacturers.
I think inkjets and lasers are basically different companies. From every vendor. The laser products just work, the inkjet products just don't.
Disappointing, but not a surprise: 1. Galaxy S 3 includes undeletable Pizza Hut bookmark http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707047 2. Galaxy custom web browser allows random web sites to make links that wipe and reset the phone: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/117422-samsung-galaxy-s-3-re...
My HP printer is region-locked. When I moved from Europe to the US it refused to accept ink cartridges bought in the US.
I have to ask: why move a printer from Europe to the US? Buying a new printer including cartridges would have been considerably cheaper.
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> The exception are models like Apple's where they've figured out how to consistently drive profits by focusing on the consumer and using the phone as a platform for selling other things (i.e.: apps and content like movies and music) -- the carriers are almost incidental in Apple's model. Almost. This is absolutely untrue. Apple's business model is to sell $650 phones to carriers, who then turn around and sell them t…
To an extent, you're right, I overstated my case. They make their profits from hardware, yes, but they don't sell to carriers. They sell to consumers, some of whom buy from individual carriers but the majority channel for iPhone sales is from Apple itself. No other phone maker can say that. Secondly, Apple's profit is uniquely enriched because it has built the platfrom that it has -- again, no other phone manufacture…