"- Like most (all?) Android phones, you cannot uninstall a bunch of the useless shovelware it comes with, like Google Play Movies." I thought this as well, but

"- Like most (all?) Android phones, you cannot uninstall a bunch of the useless shovelware it comes with, like Google Play Movies." I thought this as well, but you are wrong. adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 $PACKAGE_NAME