I have the Samsung Vibrant, without rooting my phone I cannot remove a variety of apps from the phone. To add insult to injury these apps often start themselves. How is this better? It seems this doesn’t do much to give me control. I hope in the next iteration of android they at least make the manufacturer skins totally decoupled from the base os.
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At least you can root your phone, get a custom ROM and go forward as you want. That’s quite a bit different than what you can do with other phones, and what the article was trying to infer.