Re:Samsung is imploding in China
by rorykoehler on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @04:43AM
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To be fair Apple have a load of crapware too. The whole ecosystem runs off of iTunes. This alone is enough to ensure I will never buy an iOS device. I agree wholeheartedly that the Samsung Android is really annoying too. There is nothing worse than having a bunch of apps you can't uninstall but also have no interest in using. Now they want to even bundle facebook! Pointless.
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It hasn't really run off iTunes for 3-4 years now. I can't remember the last time I had to launch it. Besides, whilst iTunes isn't great, if most crapware was even as good as iTunes then there wouldn't be much of a problem.
I agree. IMHO iTune is definitely a poor excuse for something that would be better run with tabs in a browser but I'm more concerned with things like the Apple Watch application or The Weather Channel that I can't remove from my iPhone.
The non-removable Apple apps on iOS that exist only to up-sell other Apple "value add" services like Newsstand, Apple Watch, iBooks, Game Centre even iCloud to lesser extent are far more annoying to me.
Re:Samsung is imploding in China
by Alphasite_ on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:05AM
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You can probably disable them from the child lock section, which just outright hides the app.
What ?
(a) The whole ecosystem doesn't run off iTunes. You can setup, manage, buy etc without needing it. It's needed on OSX for buying music/movies/books but that's hardly surprising.
(b) There has never been any talk of or intention to bundle Facebook. It would actually be a pretty bad move for Facebook since it could be seen to be a pretty anticompetitive move.