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Verizon still thinks you’re stupid

20
Aug
2014

One of the most difficult parts of getting a new phone is deciding which of the preinstalled bloatware apps might actually serve a purpose at some point in the future and which of the apps to delete. Android is most notorious for this practice, but we all have software on our phones that doesn’t belong there, which makes this report from The Information all the more baffling. FROM EARLIER: Verizon thinks you’re stupid According to The Information, Verizon is planning to launch its own mobile app store to compete with the Google Play store on Android devices. Verizon’s previous attempt at an app store failed to gain much traction, but now that Google has begun cutting back on revenue sharing with

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