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Google Relaxes Handset Makers' Requirements for "Must-Include" Android Apps

Posted by timothy on from the hardly-the-worst-offenders dept.

According to The Verge, anyone who buys a new Android phone may benefit from an interesting change in their phone's default apps: namely, fewer pieces of included bloatware. However, the affected apps might not be the ones that a user concerned with bloatware might care most about (like carrier-specific apps), but are rather some of the standard Google-provided ones (Google+, Google Play Games, Google Play Books and Google Newsstand). These apps will still be available at the Google Play Store, just not required for a handset maker to get Google's blessing. (Also at ZDNet.)

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  1. Good God, no. by Overzeetop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What makes you think the Verizon browser would be anything but a shit sandwich with extra advertising on top?

    Remember that Verizon still hasn't adopted IMAP for their email protocol. To view them as competent at anything is a farce.

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  2. If only I could convince the manufacturers ... by damn_registrars · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish I could convince the phone manufacturers that I don't need the facebook app. I don't have a facebook account and have no use for the app, yet my phone will not let me uninstall it. In fact my phone keeps telling me that I need to update this large app that I never use.

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