Absolute garbage from Motorola. I buy midrange Android phones from them and normally have no complaints, but every time the OS updates I have to wade through shit like this to prevent crapware auto-installing on my phone - ThreadSky

oneknightinproduct.com • 161 days ago

Absolute garbage from Motorola. I buy midrange Android phones from them and normally have no complaints, but every time the OS updates I have to wade through shit like this to prevent crapware auto-installing on my phone

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dreduardocalvillo.substack.com•161 days ago

Most Android phones do the same, that’s why I left the Android ecosystem. Too much time removing or trying removing useless apps.

Plus you have to wait for the specific Android distro for your phone/carrier, which sometimes never comes.

oneknightinproduct.com•161 days ago

Motorola used to be ok when they were owned by Google. Was quite a vanilla experience with timely updates. Seems to have gotten a lot worse since they sold them to Lenovo

dreduardocalvillo.substack.com•161 days ago

Oh I can imagine then.

I got a Lenovo computer from work, it came with a lot of crap preinstalled that can not be properly removed or updated (Microsoft defender does not let me update it, Lenovo does not let me remove it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

calvobianco.com•161 days ago

Companies so desperate to push shit only for some made-up KPI instead of 'this solves x for customer'.

LinkedIn does it, Windows does it, and I guess Motorola too.

nativewired.com•161 days ago

Yes it feels like the customer was left out of the picture long ago :(

beny23.github.io•161 days ago

#enshittification

zopeff.me•161 days ago

Au contraire! I think the customer is the only one in those pictures...

nativewired.com•161 days ago

Interesting - could you say more about that?

zopeff.me•161 days ago

Motorola's customers are the app developers on those lists. They have paid for that placement. Paid even more to be the "recommended" apps. The fact the _user_ needs to wade through all that sorta intended because most users won't. Apps end up installed which is what the customer (app dev) paid for.

oneknightinproduct.com•161 days ago

I understand the business model, but I paid for a full-price phone, not an ad-supported phone (like those cheap Kindles with ads on the lock screen)

nativewired.com•161 days ago

Ahh okay that way...

I see that - and I really don't like it

mccrodp.bsky.social•161 days ago

Block Blast looks worth a shot, at a rating of 4.9, no?

watsonitis.bsky.social•161 days ago

Who needs to make $ from doing product when you can Cash Giraffe your way to millionaire status?

zopeff.me•161 days ago

I forget where I read this, but recently someone articulated the dread of how our modern world is designed to constantly try and coerce us into accepting things that are not in our interest. Vigilance is exhausting and the attacks are coming from every possible direction. #enshitification.

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