09:45, 2 April 2021 Page views 1021 views

Samsung began pre-installation of indelible Yandex applications

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On March 29, users of the company's devices began to complain on social networks that the Yandex.Browser, Yandex.Disk and Yandex.Maps apps installed with the OS update could not be removed, reports the Kommersant newspaper.

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Anton Guskov, a spokesman for RATEK (Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Electrical Household and Computer Equipment) said that the law does not contain a domestic software “removability” clause, but it includes a condition, under which the application must be preserved when updating.

The Ministry for Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media noted that the requirement to pre-install applications is applicable to the devices manufactured after April 1, but some manufacturers could start the pre-installation earlier. Samsung said that, taking into account technical peculiarities, the system software is being updated for the entire product line. They noted that most of the pre-installed applications can be removed, and as regards indelible ones, it is possible to remove the icon from the screen.

Yandex's feedback 

At the same time, Yandex did not ask manufacturers to make its applications indelible, said Yandex Group Managing Director, Tigran Khudaverdyan on his Facebook page.

“We never ask any of our partners – whether they are manufacturers of phones, or tablets, or TV sets – to make our applications indelible. We are against this, because doing so is bad for users. We didn’t sign respective agreements with the phone manufacturers, and just like humans, we agree with everyone who is angry. No, you must not do like that,” Khudaverdyan said.

He added that the company had asked Samsung and other vendors not to make their apps indelible. Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Vivo, ZTE, F Plus, Meizu and Prestigio confirmed their readiness not to do that. 

Source:  the Kommersant newspaper