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What's the difference between Samsung's Email app and Google's GMail app? What makes Samsung's bloatware but Google's not in your mind? They're both pre-instal

What's the difference between Samsung's Email app and Google's GMail app? What makes Samsung's bloatware but Google's not in your mind? They're both pre-installed apps that some people might or might not need that you can't uninstall.

pkaye 9y ago
Those Google apps are part of the default Android experience. And I'd prefer a consistent experience as possible from phone to phone. It should however it possible for the end user to install any other apps of their own preference. I certainly don't want to manufacturers and carriers to force them upon me.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  You bought a Samsung phone, why wouldn't you have Samsung apps? Apple phones have Apple apps. Everyone need not have a single company's apps shoved forcibly down their throats.
  - pkaye 9y ago
    > Apple phones have Apple apps. > Everyone need not have a single company's apps shoved forcibly down their throats. So it looks like Apple is shoving their apps down our throats.
    - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
      Don't you expect Apple phones to have Apple apps and Samsung phones to have Samsung apps? Why is Google supposed to be the dictator of experience on a Samsung device? And in a world where 85% of phones run Android, do you consider that an upside? That people only have the choice between Apple or Google experiences, and no others?
      - bitmapbrother 9y ago
        Because they created the OS. If Samsung has an issue with it then why don't they leave Android and start using their own OS?
      - pkaye 9y ago
        Samsung is certainly within their rights to take the free portion of Android and replace the rest of the missing stuff with they own funky little apps.
verall 9y ago
Samsung's email app is crap and additional to the google app, while gmail feels like a useful default email app. It's a super fine line that is basically just preference, and they are both bloatware in a technical sense (can't uninstall it).

pkaye 9y ago

Those Google apps are part of the default Android experience. And I'd prefer a consistent experience as possible from phone to phone. It should however it possible for the end user to install any other apps of their own preference. I certainly don't want to manufacturers and carriers to force them upon me.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
You bought a Samsung phone, why wouldn't you have Samsung apps? Apple phones have Apple apps. Everyone need not have a single company's apps shoved forcibly down their throats.
- pkaye 9y ago
  > Apple phones have Apple apps. > Everyone need not have a single company's apps shoved forcibly down their throats. So it looks like Apple is shoving their apps down our throats.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    Don't you expect Apple phones to have Apple apps and Samsung phones to have Samsung apps? Why is Google supposed to be the dictator of experience on a Samsung device? And in a world where 85% of phones run Android, do you consider that an upside? That people only have the choice between Apple or Google experiences, and no others?
    - bitmapbrother 9y ago
      Because they created the OS. If Samsung has an issue with it then why don't they leave Android and start using their own OS?
    - pkaye 9y ago
      Samsung is certainly within their rights to take the free portion of Android and replace the rest of the missing stuff with they own funky little apps.

verall 9y ago

Samsung's email app is crap and additional to the google app, while gmail feels like a useful default email app. It's a super fine line that is basically just preference, and they are both bloatware in a technical sense (can't uninstall it).