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The highest level of severity is reserved for anything that allows users to uninstall the crapware they ship with their phones.
by gradys 7y ago
The highest level of severity is reserved for anything that allows users to uninstall the crapware they ship with their phones.
- cjbprime 7y agoHN snark is doing great recently. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300333
- raverbashing 7y agoNo kidding It's ridiculous how a brand new phone from Samsung comes with non user-removable Facebook spyware and all their Bixby stuff that all want you to create an account
- Aweorih 7y agoAt least can you disable facebook, Bixby sadly not..
- amphibian87 7y agoI broke my phone and bought a cheap burner phone, it was 20 dollars and honestly I'm not sure I'll ever buy a nice phone again. It's 720/1gig of RAM but it's only a mild annoyance, it's just as good as my old expensive one. Anyway it came preinstalled with FB and I'm wondering now if, even though I deactivated it, it spies. That's for sure why the phone was for sale at that price, it's subsidized with lots of bloat ware
- tbrock 7y agoVote with your wallet and buy pixels or Apple phones.
- raverbashing 7y agoPixels are not so easy to buy for some reason (outside of the US), only through the web site and some stores. I'm also voting with my wallet against Apple taking out the headphone jack.
- StreamBright 7y agohttps://store.google.com/regionpicker https://store.google.com/regionpicker Not sure what you are talking about. If I google buy google pixel outside of the US it takes me to this where I can select my region. I includes many regions/countries outside of the US.
- graycrow 7y agoMany, but not all. Half of Europe is missing, for example.
- mikro2nd 7y agoAnd all of Africa.
- cesarb 7y agoAlso missing is all of the American continent other than North America and Brazil. And selecting Brazil, there's only the Nest Mini and the Chromecast, and nothing else.
- StreamBright 7y agoSorry I did not go through the purchase process, it seems you cannot ship phones outside of the country where it is available.
- SimplyUnknown 7y agoPick the Netherlands, for example. No way to buy any (smart)phone.
- tialaramex 7y agoI bought my current Pixel by walking into a nearby store the night after my previous phone bricked itself in my hotel room, and simply picking the box up and walking to the register. Getting them to sell me just a phone, and not insurance, maintenance, service, style advice, or a fitness plan took about ten minutes, but buying the phone was easy. Persuading Google and everybody else relevant that this was not a SIM hijack (new phone, same number, old phone was totally bricked so couldn't help, other non-work PCs were hours away) was not easy but I wouldn't want it to be.
- mschuster91 7y agoThe problem is no one except Samsung makes any decent tablets, and even Samsung is hardly decent - crap cameras, no NFC... and the Apple ecosystem is a walled garden.
- pjmlp 7y agoMicrosoft, Asus and Huawei also do nice tablets.
- scarface74 7y agoMicrosoft tablets are far from “nice”. They run Windows with all of the bloat that entails. This isn’t meant to be an anti-MS screed. I would say the same if Apple released a “Mac tablet”. Windows is perfectly fine as a PC operating system and I use it everyday and have been developing on and for Windows my entire career. But, as a tablet operating system - No. It’s only been within the last couple of years that I’ve been deploying to Linux and it’s still .Net Core.
- tbrock 7y agoPick your poison I guess. I’d rather have security than freedom when it comes to a cell phone. I’d also rather Apple decide what the wall looks like than Verizon.
- josefx 7y agoOn the one hand I agree, on the other why should Google have a monopoly on adding bloatware to my phone. Might as well go the whole nine yards and pre patch the unremovable chrome with an ask toolbar.
- Intermernet 7y agoIt's a bit easier to remove Chrome from a Pixel than it is to remove Safari from an iPhone!