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Samsung is facing a battle with end users concerning its agreements with software companies to set some preinstalled software on Samsung mobile phones to be undeletable. Users have found that applications like Facebook can't be uninstalled, which has caused some distress given the recent data breaches and lack of respect Facebook has shown towards its users in the past decade. Some users have sworn off getting another Samsung phone if apps can't be uninstalled. The argument that users can just hack the phone to get root access, and then force remove the apps does not hold with non-technical users and anyone who can't risk bricking their device. Samsung has refused to comment on this, and specifically will not provide details about agreements it has with software vendors to force their applications to always be installed on Samsung phones. By comparison, the iPhone does not ever come with pre-installed third party applications.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday January 09 2019, @11:49PM (1 child)
Yes, it was a big deal back then. Nowadays, you can no more trust them like another of the other big corps like Google, Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, the various Chinese manufacturers. So yes, I'll use their product as much as I'll use Google's or Apple's or MS's or Samsung's, etc.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday January 10 2019, @12:16AM
Understood.
Don't trust them much, either.
I still do not have a Google account. I am afraid that once I give them any kind of payment credentials, any number of "think outside the box" types will post charges to it with the same reckless abandon that current "rights holders" "update" my stuff behind my back.
Apparently, only governments seem to consider this kind of crap to be a "right".
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