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0 pointsendorphone7y ago0 comments

Neat. So the OS allowed you to choose alternatives and to avoid Chrome wholly. So you're fully of the opinion that the EU argument has no merit then, right?

Of course, saying it's a part of the Android/Google Experience is from the average consumer. You know that you have the Chrome browser if you so choose. Yes, you can go to the Play Store and install Firefox. Unlike on iOS where the browser alternatives are facades.

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jhasse7y ago

It's the same argument as with Microsoft vs. the EU regarding IE: Defaults are important when you have a monopoly.

joshuamorton7y ago

I'm pretty sure that an important part of the Microsoft argument was that you couldn't uninstall ie and it was used by certain system functions even if you set a different default. That's an important distinction.

(Im a Googler, but that's not particularly relevant to this comment)

jhasse7y ago

I can't uninstall Chrome on my LG Android phone either.

joshuamorton7y ago

No, but you can fully disable it (and that's equivalent to uninstalling, and wasn't possible on windows).

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xg157y ago

An "app" on Android is not a traditional executable. It's really a library and a collection of OS hooks that execute code from that library on various events.

The home screen icon is one of those hooks but by far not the only one. If I hide it or never press it, that implies exactly nothing about whether or not code from the app gets executed while I use the phone.

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jhasse7y ago

It's the same argument as with Microsoft vs. the EU regarding IE: Defaults are important when you have a monopoly.

joshuamorton7y ago

(Im a Googler, but that's not particularly relevant to this comment)

jhasse7y ago

I can't uninstall Chrome on my LG Android phone either.

joshuamorton7y ago

No, but you can fully disable it (and that's equivalent to uninstalling, and wasn't possible on windows).

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xg157y ago

An "app" on Android is not a traditional executable. It's really a library and a collection of OS hooks that execute code from that library on various events.

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