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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by ImprovedSilence on Monday January 13, 2020 @09:31AM (#22034729)
>> aren’t bloated or anything besides useful.

Really? I have a folder on my iPhone three pages deep called “apple junk” which is nothing but all the apple pre installed bloat apps that I never use.

Do some people find a use case for them? Sure. But there they are on my phone. Pre installed and just taking up space..

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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by JiNCMG on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:33AM (#22035287)
Why keep them in a folder? Uninstall them? 3 Pages Deep? That's 27 icons. I don't think a default iPhone comes with 27 pre-installed apps.
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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by freehunter on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:25AM (#22035776)
It’s only been recently that you could uninstall them, and even then it just removes the icon but keeps the data for a lot of these pre-packaged apps.
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Re:Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware by saagarjha on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:43PM (#22040559)
It keeps the system frameworks they rely on. The app itself does go away.
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