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This isn't a rebuttal, but there are often (better) alternatives to the firmware that ships with devices, especially if it's a carrier maintained version. I've

This isn't a rebuttal, but there are often (better) alternatives to the firmware that ships with devices, especially if it's a carrier maintained version. I've used Cyanogenmod on my smart devices for as long as I've been buying them. CM has had sandboxing for apps for a few years now, and I was running 5.1.1 on my S3 months before it was available for my SO's S5 through her carrier. CM13, announced recently, will be built around Marshmallow. For older devices, you can either try the newest CM versions or go back to earlier stable major releases. And they're all bloatware and CarrierIQ free.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
I stayed away from Cyanogenmod because... well, the rule of conservation of hackergy dictates that playing around with rooting my phone would take me away from hacking electronics and constantly reconfiguring Emacs. But at this point I think after I get back from China, if I won't buy a phone here, I'm going to flash my S4 with Cyanogen, praying it will help - the way the phone has been slowing down for the past two years is utterly ridiculous, and I blame it on overheating CPU or something because I just can't believe this shit could be software - neither the system nor the apps I use should ever need that much processing power.