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European competition law. It's a thing.
What does that mean? Google aren't allowed to bundle a Calc app because it's anti-competitive? I remember all that shit with Windows. Total waste of time.
I don't really care if Samsung have one, it just seems a bit dumb to rewrite a basic app that already exists within Android. Of more concern to me is the reskinned UI (fine if you like it) and all the other shit that is either not necessary or downright invasive.
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it just seems a bit dumb to rewrite a basic app that already exists
Texas Instruments and Casio competed for decades over feature sets and ease of use (and also hardware qualities, but that's moot if you're going to run whatever calculator you choose on the same device). Why buy Photoshop when MSPaint comes bundled with the OS? You can change the value of a pixel in a raster graphics file to any arbitrary value in either 🙂
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They can't make stuff like that mandatory in their os. And Samsung can offer whatever app they like.
gbj_tester
Grumpy_Git
European competition law. It's a thing.
I think the bloatware concern is historic from the days where overlays and background apps took up the much more limited processing capability of mobile phones.
These days most phones have more power than is needed for your average YouTube viewing and web browsing. Plus overlays and background processes are better coded.