August 23, 2015 04:00 pm
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Google Relaxes Handset Makers' Requirements for "Must-Include" Android Apps
According to The Verge, anyone who buys a new Android phone may benefit from an interesting change in their phone's default apps: namely, fewer pieces of included bloatware. However, the affected apps might not be the ones that a user concerned with bloatware might care most about (like carrier-specific apps), but are rather some of the standard Google-provided ones (Google+, Google Play Games, Google Play Books and Google Newsstand). These apps will still be available at the Google Play Store, just not required for a handset maker to get Google's blessing.(Also at ZDNet.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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