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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by eropple on Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:17PM (#6454876)
> Is the phone app spam if I want nothing to do with it? The music app if I don't listen to music?

Yes. This is quite real of me, I assure you. If I can't make it Go Away if I have no use for it, it's spam. As it happens, I've consolidated my reading. It isn't in Newsstand. It should not trouble me if I don't want it, and having a "junk" drawer is a sad non-solution.

Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by siglesias on Friday September 27, 2013 @01:55AM (#6455453)
The common definition of spam is something that most people consider junk but a few people might use, thus justifying inflicting it upon everyone. Your definition is almost the opposite: something that most people find useful but that you happen not to need. This is an abuse if not outright misuse of the term.
Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by do-it-good on Friday September 27, 2013 @12:28PM (#6457792)
Haha, many people just find it too painful to admit they were ever wrong. So once they say they support a given team, party, church, company they start ignoring all evidence against it.

Interesting how after your original argument (the difference between app and bookmark) was defeated you came up with a new one (percentage of people liking).

Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by siglesias on Friday September 27, 2013 @12:48PM (#6457906)
I don't think anybody made the claim that no app is spam, only, from what I can tell, that no iOS built-in app is spam. Which is more than lots of Android phones can say about their built-in apps.
Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by eropple on Friday September 27, 2013 @02:42PM (#6458736)
Many people enjoy getting political news emailed to them. Many, many people. Yet it infuriates me when it gets forwarded to me because it is--wait for it--spam. It is annoying crap I don't want.

Spam is defined as whether it annoys the receiver, not the sender's intentions. And there's no 'unsubscribe' in iOS.