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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
It is only bloat because YOU think so. It has happened more than once that a once "bloat only feature" made it eventually into a future version of Android. "Usually goes unused" means it is not for you. That it doesn't go altogether unused means someone finds it useful. Having choice is good - including the option to have more features preinstalled than you will use.
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The problem is that a lot of the bloat includes apps that can't (easily) be removed, as they are part of the carrier-specific OS version, and all too often they are just there to try to get you to purchase additional services from the carrier - they have no use at all without paying for those additional services. Meanwhile they take up space, and may have services running (draining your battery) even though they aren't actually doing anything for the user.
My last Motorola from AT&T had loads of that stuff on it. My current phone (Pantech Flex), however, doesn't, possibly because the Pantech uses a specific OS version of its own, instead of an AT&T crapware version. So while I rooted the Moto to lighten the load (the only way to get rid of those apps), I never felt the need with the Pantech because I can just turn off the special Pantech UI features and never have to see them, they take up little space, and they don't have a bunch of stuff running in the background.