• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Remember when Apple put a U2 song on everyone’s iPhone and people went nuts about it? How dare they do that! That was just a song.

    Now companies just install whatever apps they want. And people just accept it.

    • slaorta@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This has been a thing since before smartphones and the U2 stunt though. The PC manufacturers started doing it back in the early 2000s.

        • limelight79@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          There were some videos on some of the installation CDs…that’s all I remember. I don’t think they were automatically installed on your hard drive, but I could be wrong.

      • FightMilk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah Android manufacturers been doing this since its inception. I remember having to remove the Blockbuster app from my Droid X lol