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As someone who has used a S10e for 4 years and just ordered a S23 I think people are blowing the "bloatware" way out of proportion. I use the Samsung apps I wan

by valzam 4y ago

As someone who has used a S10e for 4 years and just ordered a S23 I think people are blowing the "bloatware" way out of proportion. I use the Samsung apps I want, the rest are disabled/tucked away in a folder. I never get bothered to update the ones I don't use. My wife has a pixel 6a, I don't see how my Samsung is any more bloated after 5 mins of setup. In fact OneUI allows you to make everything look a lot more minimal and cleaner than the default pixel setup with it's huge buttons, colours everywhere and the google search bar you can't get rid of.

Xeamek 4y ago
Exactly. People have this weird idea that some how google's closed source, data grabbing "use our service please" implementation of file browser is more "pure android" then samsungs one. Where in fact it is either the same, or the samsung one is actually less 'in your face' with being a oem-made product
anthomtb 4y ago
Maybe folks are confusing Samsung with Xiaomi.
- nsonha 4y ago
  MIUI eu is less bloat than Samsung, Google even.
valzam 4y ago
I think the only app I was concerned about is Facebook being installed. But I deactivated it right when I got the phone and never had to touch it again.
cleanchit 4y ago
I don't want to spend an entire day disabling shit and uninstalling games that the vendor installed on my phone automatically.
somerandomqaguy 4y ago
Depends on the phone. For Canadian Galaxy series, Samsung bakes in the carrier firmware into the base images and factory resets itself the first time you insert a SIM. For example if you buy a S23 unlocked from Costco and then insert a Telus SIM card, it factory resets itself to the firmware the that Telus has specces. That includes system level app MyTelus, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and a few others that I can't remember right now.l. So if you like to do setup before inserting a SIM card, all the changes you've made get blown away (supposed to only happen the first time though). What's more, Samsung phones tend to be very unsolicited notification heavy the first few days to draw your attention to all of the new features that they have. Whether you care or not i.e. the S20 will throw a notification about how you can change the background wallpaper. On the Pixel at least Google chose to wait until you accessed a feature to start throwing these 'tips' at you. So at least for me, Samsung phones aren't a pleasant experience to deal with. >In fact OneUI allows you to make everything look a lot more minimal and cleaner than the default pixel setup with it's huge buttons, colours everywhere and the google search bar you can't get rid of. Perhaps but it is still faster to install Nova launcher and tweak one or two settings to remove the search bar, then it is to disable 10 or so individual apps bundled in Samsung phones.
kjsingh 4y ago
> the rest are disabled/tucked That is bad right? Still eating away the space?
- valzam 4y ago
  Yes, I shouldn't have to deal with this on a close to $1k device. But ~500mb or so of wasted storage is also not the end of the world.

by valzam 4y ago

Xeamek 4y ago

Exactly. People have this weird idea that some how google's closed source, data grabbing "use our service please" implementation of file browser is more "pure android" then samsungs one. Where in fact it is either the same, or the samsung one is actually less 'in your face' with being a oem-made product

anthomtb 4y ago

Maybe folks are confusing Samsung with Xiaomi.

nsonha 4y ago
MIUI eu is less bloat than Samsung, Google even.

valzam 4y ago

I think the only app I was concerned about is Facebook being installed. But I deactivated it right when I got the phone and never had to touch it again.

cleanchit 4y ago

I don't want to spend an entire day disabling shit and uninstalling games that the vendor installed on my phone automatically.

somerandomqaguy 4y ago

Depends on the phone. For Canadian Galaxy series, Samsung bakes in the carrier firmware into the base images and factory resets itself the first time you insert a SIM. For example if you buy a S23 unlocked from Costco and then insert a Telus SIM card, it factory resets itself to the firmware the that Telus has specces. That includes system level app MyTelus, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and a few others that I can't remember right now.l. So if you like to do setup before inserting a SIM card, all the changes you've made get blown away (supposed to only happen the first time though). What's more, Samsung phones tend to be very unsolicited notification heavy the first few days to draw your attention to all of the new features that they have. Whether you care or not i.e. the S20 will throw a notification about how you can change the background wallpaper. On the Pixel at least Google chose to wait until you accessed a feature to start throwing these 'tips' at you. So at least for me, Samsung phones aren't a pleasant experience to deal with. >In fact OneUI allows you to make everything look a lot more minimal and cleaner than the default pixel setup with it's huge buttons, colours everywhere and the google search bar you can't get rid of. Perhaps but it is still faster to install Nova launcher and tweak one or two settings to remove the search bar, then it is to disable 10 or so individual apps bundled in Samsung phones.

kjsingh 4y ago

> the rest are disabled/tucked That is bad right? Still eating away the space?

valzam 4y ago
Yes, I shouldn't have to deal with this on a close to $1k device. But ~500mb or so of wasted storage is also not the end of the world.