South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable 138
_0x783czar writes "Starting this April, South Korea will require all phone vendors to allow pre-installed bloatware to be uninstalled. That's right, they will be able to get rid of all that pesky software without having to root their phones. According to press release by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, 'The move aims to rectify an abnormal practice that causes inconvenience to smartphone users and causes unfair competition among industry players.' They hope this will also increase the users' data storage and battery life. From the article: 'Under the new guidelines, telcos are required to make most of their pre-installed apps deletable except for four necessary items related to Wi-Fi connectivity, near-field communication (NFC), the customer service center and the app store.' It'd be nice if similar legislation were passed in the U.S. and elsewhere."
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No, it wouldn't have been...
In 2004, I had 24Mbit/s down/1.5Mbit/s up ADSL2 here in Sweden. GOOD connections were fiber/ethernet already, thanks to Bredbandsbolaget and a couple of others, as well as some municipal networks.