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0 pointstssva6y ago0 comments

Apple bundles plenty of software on their computers which I don't want, have never used, which increase the potential attack surface and which I can't uninstall. For example Apple Maps, Apple News, Home, and Books. In fact you can't uninstall any of the apps shipped with macOS. Not even the chess program.

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MagicPropmaker6y ago

Exactly! With Windows you do have choices. I bought a desktop PC from ThinkMate configured exactly as I wanted it with a plain vanilla Windows 10.

carleton6y ago

As another user said- "It's barely 5 megabytes.. and it's probably not connecting to anything.

The protections for pre-installed apps help to make sure nothing else tampers with them, e.g. injecting some malware, but I'm sure you can remove those protections and reclaim the 5 MB if you really wanted to."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19803067

tssvaOP6y ago

Chess was given as an example because it is the most ridiculous thing that can't be removed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809880 for my full response to the other user.

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