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If an anti-worker company is getting fleeced, nothing wrong with that. I hope motorola collaborates with Pine and brings linux to phones. In the age of LLM apps are obviously not a problem. (Hopefully windows Phone 7, not 8 also comes back)
I agree with your overall opinion, but not sure why you had to bring LLMs into a topic that has nothing to do with them.
Chinese brands always pull this stuff
Calling this "hijacking the Amazon app" is hyperbolic in my opinion. They replaced the shortcut in the app drawer. To me this looks like normal scummy OEM behaviour, like pre-installing spyware, "anti-" malware, adware etc. which sadly pretty much every mobile/computer manufacturer does. Replacing the OS is one of the first things I do with every laptop, PC and mobile device to get rid of (most) crap that was install…
Very little ability to do that with most devices these days, unfortunately.
To think I was worried about buying a Xiaomi tablet while already using a Motorola. Gonna flash a rom on the Xiaomi anyway, but all oems are doing this type of stuff.
I used to choose Motorola devices for a long time but since 2 years when I bought Edge 30 Fusion I started to notice they automatically (without my knowledge) add 3 stupid apps or games about two times a month :/ There is no way to stop it. My kids phones are stuffed with this sh*t.
Luckily there is a mobile phone OS and hardware that isn't produced by the world's largest advertising company, and furthermore doesn't allow two different corporations to be involved in the core OS of the device.
Chinese brands always pull this stuff
Around 10-15 years ago you could get a completely stock Android from China with basically zero branding, fully unlocked and easily rootable, removable battery, expandable storage, dual DIMs, etc. at a great price. I have a few. Unfortunately many of those small honest OEMs appear to have disappeared, and the bigger ones left have turned scummy.
And then, once they become dominant enough starting to play it like the others but stuffing as many unremovable crap as possible.
I used to choose Motorola devices for a long time but since 2 years when I bought Edge 30 Fusion I started to notice they automatically (without my knowledge) add 3 stupid apps or games about two times a month :/ There is no way to stop it. My kids phones are stuffed with this sh*t.
Luckily there is a mobile phone OS and hardware that isn't produced by the world's largest advertising company, and furthermore doesn't allow two different corporations to be involved in the core OS of the device.
Is Motorola Chinese by any chance? I remember the Motorola company has been split to phones and the rest