-
"Bloatware" in this case could be considered their OS skin. OneUI or Bixby or whatever it is.
For me, anything above stock Android is bloatware. Sometimes it might be useful, often it's not.
There's a stock Android calc, why is there a Samsung one? There's Google appstore, why do I want a Samsung appstore too? Basically there was lots of shit on Samsung XCovers I had that I never used and just took up space and/or memory.
https://www.minitool.com/news/list-of-samsung-bloatware-safe-to-remove.html
You could argue that some of the stuff on Android is bloatware I guess but that's a harder sell when you're relying on them for the OS. Samsung and Google are both annoying when it comes to restricting what users can and can't remove which is why nerds will root phones and use custom ROMs and shit. I don't have time for that these days.
hippy-
OneUI or Bixby or whatever it is.
Those are two different things. To me, OneUI doesn't seem materially different from Android One or any other launcher including iOs and the late lamented Windows Metro.
Bixby I've never even touched, so I don't know what it does.
-
There's a stock Android calc, why is there a Samsung one
European competition law. It's a thing.
I think the bloatware concern is historic from the days where overlays and background apps took up the much more limited processing capability of mobile phones.
These days most phones have more power than is needed for your average YouTube viewing and web browsing. Plus overlays and background processes are better coded.
gbj_tester
Grumpy_Git
I keep seeing this on the thread, and yet I keep not seeing it on my Samsung phones. I haven't even tried to uninstall anything, because none of this so-called bloatware has ever been a problem.
The thing I never see mentioned on this thread is HMD. Is there a reason for that? Their Skyline seems like something people would at least look at if they're in the Pixel 8/Galaxy A55 market.