Don’t want those apps on your phone? You should be able to delete them!
If you’ve ever seen a Korean phone up close, you’ll know that those things come absolutely stacked to the rafters with pre-installed, bloatware apps. Be they from carriers or OEM’s, the result leaves a brand new phone coming out of the box filled with apps. But, while the pre-installing can continue, new guidelines there say that those apps must be user deletable.
“The move aims to rectify an abnormal practice that causes inconvenience to smartphone users and causes unfair competition among industry players,”
Filling up a phone with non-removable apps just hurts a big portion of the folks who buy it. Less storage space is available for one. A positive move for our Korean friends then, and the new guidelines will come into effect from April. I’m guessing there are more than a few folks out there who’d like to see a similar practice over in Europe and North America?
via ZDNet