I am noticing more and more of that Plex is included in either hardware platforms or also preinstalled as a client on computers.
I recently purchased 10 dell business class OptiPlex machines with windows 10 and found the Plex client to be preinstalled on all of them.
On one hand I am happy that the product is expanding on too many different platforms but at the same time there is always the fear that they will get gobbled up by a larger entity that me then destroy the product.
Hopefully I am just overreacting and this will never happen. Again I am happy to see it being deployed as a common solution.
Jeez … why would you ship a notebook with pre-installed software, that is not functional without prior setup/configuration??? Plex is not a virus-scanner or a minesweeper app.
Pure desperation … I don’t see any other reason why Plex would do something like this.
Are we sure the Plex client app isn’t tied to your account and automatically downloading based on that? I can’t fully speak for Windows, but I now Android does this. On first sign in, it will download your apps you have installed on other devices.
Guaranteed it is not tied to an account. I purchased some Lenovo systems, and the W10 Plex App was installed. I upgraded a W7 system in January to W10, and the Plex App was preloaded. I do not use a Microsoft account, only local account, so it would have no way of knowing who was using the system.
The native windows 10 plex client. Though these are refurb dells so I will compare to new dells I purchase for clients. Though refurbs from dell are reimaged so the machine does not have any previous customer data.
