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You mean like how my phone shipped with Google music and Google duo, two discontinued services but with applications i now can't delete?
Do you mean Allo? Duo is very much not discontinued.
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And because of the great effectiveness of the American government, MS lost their dominance in the PC operating system market and rank nowhere near the top five most valuable companies in the US like they did 20 years ago.
The suit wasn't about their dominance in the PC operating systems market, it was about anticompetitive behavior to maintain that advantage against competitors, and anticompetitive behavior to gain advantages against competitors in other markets. Had the suit came earlier, we would not have been blessed with the decade of security vulnerabilities that plagued the desktop because Internet Explorer was tightly integrate…
The biggest irony to Microsoft’s anti-competitive OEM practices is that they were unnecessary. The network effects of software compatibility proved sufficient to maintain their dominance.
And their temporarily successful attempts to dominate the browser market failed to turn the open standards web platform into the Windows platform’s greatest competitor.
I know that decimate is a colloquialism nowadays but I feel like a publication should know better. Unless Google asked for ten percent of the proceeds or something, as a headline it makes absolutely no sense.
> 3a: to reduce drastically especially in number
> cholera decimated the population
> Kamieniecki's return comes at a crucial time for a pitching staff that has been decimated by injuries. — Jason Diamos
> b: to cause great destruction or harm to
> firebombs decimated the city
> an industry decimated by recession
Hardware/OS vendors should not be allowed to include app stores out of the box, much less prevent sideloading. We'd be nowhere near where we are today if PCs couldn't run Linux, and earlier PCs couldn't run whatever you wanted from a floppy. The fact that consumers are lazy and stores are easy shouldn't prevent decisions beneficial to everyone.
I like the idea, but then you have specific-purpose hardware like game consoles, although they're becoming more general purpose devices so I see them less and less as an exception. But there's still other devices like Fitbits that I'm not so sure about.
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He's been gone from Google for six years, so I don't think we can paint him as a hypocrite or going back on his word over this. EDIT: In fact it was around the time Android was changing a little bit away from its open source roots that Rubin was sidelined out of the Android division and into robotics, shortly after which he quit.
October 2013... “Google's iron grip on Android: controlling open source by any means necessary” https://www.wired.co.uk/article/googles-iron-grip-on-android
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October 2013... “Google's iron grip on Android: controlling open source by any means necessary” https://www.wired.co.uk/article/googles-iron-grip-on-android
It is super worrying that in the 7 years nothing really changed for better in this regard, with Google only making things even less open and removing more user control.
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You can literally disable it by setting the assistant app to "None".
Really? Where do I find that setting? I've looked, hard. Edit: Found it - I wonder if this is new or if I missed it when I got the phone - thanks! Doesn't stop it from being bloatware...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Ice_Cream_Sandwich
> Certain "System" apps (particularly those pre-loaded by carriers) that cannot be uninstalled can now be disabled. This hides the application and prevents it from launching, but the application is not removed from storage.
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You can literally disable it by setting the assistant app to "None".
Really? Where do I find that setting? I've looked, hard. Edit: Found it - I wonder if this is new or if I missed it when I got the phone - thanks! Doesn't stop it from being bloatware...
You can also disable Google app to stop it from running. You'll lose the other services it provides though.
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Their customers are not your right For example,you are not forbidden from developing for some random Linux distro They did not build their trust and ecosystem for free,so you should'nt have access to them for free 30% is not unreasonable,costs can be managed,since you are selling a digital product
"Their customers are not your right" When did I become Google's property to trade and bargain with? Because it sounds like i didnt buy the phone, Google bought me.
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How its dream of zero bloatware when Google itself adds tons of Bloatware starting from Play Music, Books, Duo, Drive what not. I am even ok shipping them by default and giving an option to uninstall. Any app which I cant uninstall is Bloatware.
Don't forget that Google embedded Duo into the Google Play Framework so even if you disabled or uninstalled the app, people could still call you via Duo.
I miss that phone so much.