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Originally Posted by sydmalicious
Apple allows you to uninstall most of their core apps, those that the system doesn’t rely on like Camera, Photos, and Safari. You can delete the rest.
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Google does that as well.
What people refer to as bloatware are usually third party apps that come installed on a phone and cannot be uninstalled. Nexus/Pixel phones do not have bloatware at all, even carrier apps. Samsung used to be riddled with it. Junk like the NFL app or Slacker Radio that could be turned off but not uninstalled.
Samsung makes beautiful hardware, but I'll never buy one of their phones due to all the antics they pull on the software side. Aside from third party bloatware, they also post their own duplicate versions of apps that Google already has better versions of. Like Samsung Gallery for instance.
Not sure if it still works this way, but it used to be that a Samsung phone would come with Google Messeges, Samsung's messenger and the phone company's messenger. Maps and cloud storage were similar.