• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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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.

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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.

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      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.