What a good way to ruin the Thinkpad reputation. Probably the best way to ruin a brand name these days is to sell it to a Chinese company.

Lenovo and others should know that this kind of underhanded behavior is not acceptable outside of China.  Keep your Superfish out of other countries.  Either catch up with the higher standards outside of China or leave the market.

Laptops with bloatware pre-installed will be around for a long time as a way of subsidizing the cost of a laptop (except with signature edition devices on the Microsoft Store). However, it's a problem when the program can't be uninstalled and intercepts internet data in a way that could potentially be compromised.

Lenovo lacks integrity and direction.  The only real valuable name on their hands were purchased - ThinkPad and Motorola Mobility.  One can buy all the names, but one can not buy integrity and direction.

Quote from: John Kokes on September 06, 2017, 03:16:07
It is not so much about the 3.5 million as it is a FANTASTIC and GREAT message to all the computer makers to stop loading BLOAT on new machines. It has been annoying me for many years that they get away with this. I sincerely hope Android will follow plus learn this lesion that Lenovo did.

Android doesn't have the same mechanism like windows.

QuoteOnly the base Android operating system (including some applications) is open-source software, whereas most Android devices ship with a substantial amount of proprietary software, such as Google Mobile Services, which includes applications such as Google Play Store, Google Search, and Google Play Services – a software ...

Most of vendor heavily customized the OS and they have to publish the kernel source within certain time span (well most, some doesn't even care and do it after a long time). Android has a loop hole, vendor are free to put bloatware as long they follow some of Google rules.

You don't like the bloatware? Then don't buy from that vendor or just uninstall all those bloatwares and you're good to go.

It is not so much about the 3.5 million as it is a FANTASTIC and GREAT message to all the computer makers to stop loading BLOAT on new machines. It has been annoying me for many years that they get away with this. I sincerely hope Android will follow plus learn this lesion that Lenovo did.