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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 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.ml 13 points 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.

[-] ki77erb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't Windows put a Weezer video on there or am I remembering something wrong?

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 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.

[-] ki77erb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah the video for Buddy Holly was on the Windows 95 install disc.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I seem to recall one from a woman, too... Ah, yes, I just looked it up - Edie Brickell's Good Times.

[-] FightMilk@lemmy.world 3 points 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

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

That's because the provider subsidizes the phone and people rather have that than to pay >1000 dollars at retail for an unbranded phone.

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