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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by datashow on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:38AM (#22033881)
The two most common sources of bloatware I saw when I was using Samsung phones were: AT&T and Samsung. Not only the number of bloatwares is crazy, they keeps coming back (from OS update?).
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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by tobenortobe on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:52AM (#22033971)
As a samsung user i can confirm this , maybe it has its own contribution to competition, but i dont see any excuse creating and dictating your own ecosystem for every single bit of mobile functionality but i am pretty sure its not limited to samsung. Also what is wrong in my opinion is that they do prevent flashing stock images
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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by nradov on Monday January 13, 2020 @12:56PM (#22036819)
Samsung doesn't want to be dependent on Google for a core business. They are hedging their bets by building out a parallel ecosystem to enable a future switch to another OS.
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