Oh my gawd Skynet attacks, or apps install themselves on your phone automatically

Oh my gawd Skynet attacks, or apps install themselves on your phone automatically

Calm down, things are not that bad yet – I just saw an opportunity to write a heading so sensational it is stupid and took it :D. Today’s subject is Huawei and a small faux pas it committed. Here is the explanation.

A few of Huawei smartphone models – 9, P9, P10 and 10 Pro – have a weird issue where a GoPro Quik app installs on them by itself. GoPro Quik is a video processing app. GoPro and Huawei have recently established co-operation, one of results of which seem to be GoPro Quik automatically installing on some of Huawei’s devices. Naturally, app can be uninstalled as fast as any other. Huawei’s response to the whole situation is that it is an ”inside error” that will soon be fixed.

I do not know about you, dear readers, but I would not like it if apps were appearing on my phone out of blue – especially if their autoinstallation was done with the phone producer’s blessing. What do you think?

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