Daring Fireball: Pre-Installed Android Apps
by Horace Dediu
The LA Times:
The Droid X comes loaded with several nonstandard applications for Google’s Android, most of which cannot be removed. Among the phone’s so-called junkware is a Blockbuster video app and a demo for an Electronic Arts game called Need for Speed: Shift.
You can’t remove them because Android is open.
via Daring Fireball Linked List: Pre-Installed Android Apps.
2 comments
Gandhi ·
Android - Apple's ideas and Microsoft's business plan. Let's see how well that works for them long term.
GoodyBird ·
I hope that cut & paste won't become the regular MO in this blog, because I find that usually the original text can be quite insightful.