Certain Microsoft apps won’t be preloaded on the AT&T and Verizon Galaxy S6

Surprise, surprise. AT&T and Verizon are altering what software ships on the Galaxy S6, limiting some of the preloaded Microsoft apps available. When it was first announced, the S6 was supposed to ship with Skype, OneNote, and OneDrive pre-installed. No one likes bloatware, but Skype and OneNote are actually pretty useful apps, and Samsung and Microsoft were tossing in 100 GB of free space of OneDrive storage, so it wasn’t an awful deal. In fact, it was probably one of the better app/service partnerships we’ve seen on a device.

Unfortunately, Verizon has removed all three of those apps from their variant of the device, while AT&T has removed the OneDrive app. This means that S6 users on the two biggest networks in the US won’t get that free OneDrive space, and Microsoft loses a ton of visibility. The carriers said if customers wanted the apps, they were free to download them from the Play Store on their devices. Too bad that policy doesn’t apply to carrier apps, too.

Any AT&T or Verizon customers disappointed with their carrier’s decisions?

source: Wall Street Journal

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