This will be good for the low end phones. My partner mother had an lg with 8gb of storage, it came bundled with all sorts of nonsense, 2 calculators, 2 alarms, some office suite. It made installing things like whatsapp or Facebook hard because of the bloat taking up the space. This only damages the reputation of these brands for me that do this sort of thing. Skins/ui and other functions are fine, but at least let me get rid of the junk
The problem is that those low-end phones are competing on price rather than reputation, and a lot of consumers shop by price. The bloatware isn't for giggles; they're paid to put it on. Taking it off might result in a better experience but would also raise the price -- and a lot of people would switch to a cheaper phone.
A few brands (mostly, it seems to me, ones with explicitly Chinese names like Xiaomi) are trying out a "cheap price no bloatware" strategy, especially now that carriers like Google Fi are attracting people from the carrier-branded stuff. But don't be surprised if a lot of the cheapest phones continue to make the bloat unremovable -- it's a low-margin, high volume proposition that works.
That’s the thing that astounds me about buying an android phone. When you buy an iPhone you get one app from Apple for each task. Because it would be ridiculous to get more than one.
But if you buy an android phone you might get a copy of Google Chrome. And some sort of rebadged Samsung browser. And maybe a Sprint browser because you bought a Sprint phone.
Now repeat that for email. And text messaging. And a couple other things.
It’s crazy. I’m amazed new users can figure out which one to use sometimes.
All because every layer of the supply chain has to add their “customization“. To add “value“.
