India, May 26 -- A phone launcher should be boring. You tap Amazon, and Amazon opens. No browser flash. No mystery URL. No hidden toll booth sitting between your thumb and the app.

That is why the Motorola Smart Feed controversy is worth watching. It is not just about an affiliate code. It is about whether a preinstalled system app can quietly rewrite user intent at the launcher level.

The issue was first highlighted by a Reddit user using a Motorola Razr 60 Ultra. The user said Amazon did not open normally from the app drawer and instead briefly routed through a browser before landing back in the Amazon app.

"I noticed something weird happening lately on my Razr 60 Ultra: when I tried to open the Amazon app, it would instead open the ...