Installing Microsoft’s Phone Companion app on Android places an ad for OneDrive in the share menu

Nice job, Microsoft. As if people needed any more reasons not to use this app.

Conversation 3 comments

  • Polycrastinator

    01 February, 2019 - 8:17 am

    <p>Annoying as that is, I wonder how many folks there are who would go as far as to install the Phone Companion app who are not also using OneDrive and therefore have it there already?</p>

  • Daekar

    01 February, 2019 - 8:25 am

    <p>I'm anti-advertising for a number of reasons, but this doesn't seem to be anything to get worked up over. Who is going to install this app who aren't interested in OneDrive? That population has got to be very small.</p>

  • waethorn

    01 February, 2019 - 10:31 am

    <p>Here's a tip: don't let Microsoft infect your mobile platform with their failures.</p>

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