[angus77]

I have an HTC Desire, and the Twitter and Facebook apps are always turning themselves on. I can kill them, but I can't prevent them from coming back on. And I don't even have a Twitter account!

Why is so unreasonable to want to free up some space on the phone by getting rid of (or at least disabling) an app I will never consider using?

[bozho]

I agree it is undesirable to force applications like that. There are some apps that monitor running processes and kill the undesired ones, but it will still be troublesome. But this does not change the openness of the platform - it is HTC that forces that upon you, not android per-se. If you have a factory, you can build android phones too.