I've never felt less in control of my own hardware

Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by eksemplar on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:49PM (#16394169)

I've uninstalled around 10 free to play games and apps that Windows 10 installed without asking in the past 6 months, so I'm not sure those slashdot people should be using windows as a good example of having control either despite that 30 years of backward compatibility. :)

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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by cptskippy on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:39PM (#16394661)

Technically they're not installed, those are just shortcuts to install them.

The issue isn't really one of backward compatibility but software design and function. As far as I know, Android maintains API compatibility all the way back to API v1. A simple app, like the calculator, written in API v1 should run on the latest Oreo device.

An app requires a remote service to function must maintain compatibility with that service to function. The trouble is compatibility updates and feature updates aren't delivered separately. So you can't avoid new features if a service compatibility prevents your old version of the app from functioning.

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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by eksemplar on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:34PM (#16395258)

That may be true, but I don't really want my operation system to auto install 138mb shortcuts for something I'd never want.

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