preinstalling

"Through a marketing partnership with major smartphone producers, Google has prohibited other market players from preinstalling their search window or related applications," NHN said in a statement.

Korean Search Portals File Complaint Against Google Jung-Ah Lee 2011

Alibaba said it is talking to other makers about preinstalling the software on their phones.

Alibaba Rolls Out Mobile-Phone Operating System Owen Fletcher 2011

Credit for kindle: AFP/Getty Images Amazon's Kindle Apple could give iBooks a home-field advantage in the App Store, or begin preinstalling it on future iPads.

For Amazon, Arrival of the iPad Opens Door to More e-Book Sales Yukari Iwatani Kane 2010

Apple could give iBooks a home-field advantage in the App Store, or begin preinstalling it on future iPads.

For Amazon, Arrival of the iPad Opens Door to More e-Book Sales Yukari Iwatani Kane 2010

Microsoft should be allowed to package whatever they want with Windows - what should really be illegal is preinstalling an operating system on any computer sold.

The European Challenge to Successful Companies - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Apple could give iBooks a home-field advantage in the App Store, or begin preinstalling it on future iPads.

For Amazon, Arrival of the iPad Opens Door to More e-Book Sales Yukari Iwatani Kane 2010

The company was also prohibited from making agreements with hardware, software, and PC vendors that penalized them if they promoted non-Microsoft operating systems or restricted them from preinstalling non-Microsoft applications.

Ars Technica Peter Bright 2011

Though many smartphones running Google's Android operating system are currently being sold in China, the world's largest mobile market by number of subscribers, some companies have distanced themselves from Google this year by preinstalling on their handsets links to the search engines of Google's competitors

WSJ.com: What's News US 2010

Though many smartphones running Google's Android operating system are currently being sold in China, the world's largest mobile market by number of subscribers, some companies have distanced themselves from Google this year by preinstalling on their handsets links to the search engines of Google's competitors

U.S. Cable: China Ordered Google Hack - WSJ.com 2010

Those machines will run Linux rather than Mac OS X. Psystar, which began selling Mac clones in April 2008, has been battling Apple in federal court in California since July 2008, when Apple sued the Doral, Fla. firm, saying it violated copyright laws by preinstalling the Mac operating system on its machines.

Macworld UK News 2009