This is absolutely right, the worst part of windows installs of the past? The weird crappy OEM software bundled onto new devices, Norton anti-virus trials etc.

This is absolutely right, the worst part of windows installs of the past? The weird crappy OEM software bundled onto new devices, Norton anti-virus trials etc. Now you've got the same thing with Android, but instead of a couple of difficult to shake trials, the entire operating system is dreck, crap from a hardware company that has put the worlds worst software engineers to the task of pimping out adware. Oh and because of the "value added" customization you're going to stop receiving critical security updates in 18 months. It's a weird sort of alternative universe where Google acts like Microsoft did, but Google isn't actulaly hegemonic in the OS space, so they actually suffer for their screw ups where Microsoft didn't.