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Re:Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with ... by drivebyacct2 on Monday April 22, 2013 @12:41PM (#5590256)
Not sure why gcb0 elided to point out that since 4.0 Android allows disabling built in apps. (Functionality equivalent to deleting, except their space in the ROM is still occupied).

Locked/unlocked bootloaders is a fairly different issue and is seeming to be much less of an issue lately.

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Re:Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with ... by gcb0 on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:38PM (#5590621)
mostly because i never used a carrier locked in device.

but i just took a quick look on my wife's noteII, and the only thing i could do was to 'hide' the app from the drawer.

there were no "disable" option.

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Re:Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with ... by mcintyre1994 on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:53PM (#5590719)
I guess the OEM might be allowed to remove the option, but it should be under apps settings. It won't be in the drawer menu if that's where you're looking.
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