QUOTE(andrekua2 @ Aug 19 2020, 12:17 AM)
That's down to individual preference. Personally I don't really feel a thing when I bought Samsung phone and it has tonnes of Samsung related apps or if my Vivo phones has a lot of Vivo related apps. That's what you bought.
Yes, there's some apps that you'll rather not see like Taobao, JD, and few others. Well, guess what. I too wouldn't want to see Google Photo, Assistant, Home, Play Music, Play News and so on. You may say that's all too blame on Samsung for taking money from Google to preload these Google related apps.
Absolutely correct! Bloatware or not, it's all depend on how you define it. If you find it useful, its good app. If not, you call it bloatware.
Even OnePlus own house oxygen os aka the cleanest OS on earth, also have their own kind of "bloatware". To name a few, Oneplus Community and Zen mode. I don't plan to join the community, so the community app is useless for me. As for the Zen mode. Why the hell I need an app to remind me when to take a break from the phone without disturb? If I want to, I could just shut down the phone and walk away. As simple as that.
Can't remember which version of it. The Zen mode in my OP7 pro kept popping out messages telling me how should I utilize it. It pop out almost every day. I found it quite annoying. Cannot uninstall or disable. At the end, I had no choice but to disable its notification. LOL.
Not to mention the upcoming Oxygen OS 11 will be including facebook aka the king of bloatware soon, which was making a lot of huha in the reddit community recently.
Don't get me wrong. I am not bashing any OS in here. I am using 3 OS (One Ui, Oxygen, Miui) at the same time, so no point for me to bash.
I am just trying to speak out the obvious facts. Cheers!
This post has been edited by Max2006: Aug 19 2020, 01:44 AM