This is my next has just uncovered what I think just might be the greatest feature inside of Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich“, the ability to disable system applications from running and appearing in the app launcher. What this means is that when a Carrier loads up any Android 4.0 device they plan on selling with bloatware, you can easily disable the application(s) from running on the device at all — you still can’t uninstall them, not that it matters now.
I can only imagine the tears that Telstra, Optus and Vodafone are shedding right now, only to be outdone by the cheers of average consumers not having to put up with crap links to webpages on their devices. Good move, Google, good move — power to the people.
