Android itself is a great thing, and bloatware is not inherently a part of it. SAMSUNG, who makes Android phones is a whole different story, though.
But just way too many conflate Samsung with Android. Android is like the Linux of the phone world. Everyone can have their own distro, tailored to their needs. Samsung just happens to tailor the more AIDS type Android system.
That’d be true if it were only Samsung doing this. The reality is that the vast majority of Android phones are this way, to various degrees.
I have only ever tried that and (the also Android based) MIUI on Xiaomi phones, but the latter is just as much of a cancer as Samsung ones, in terms of bloatware.
You can’t even uninstall some of those, like the Emoji keyboard, for example. You can use something else but you can’t remove it (without rooting your phone, at least). So then you get this notification about the update for the Emoji keyboard. Then you don’t tap it, because you don’t want to install it. So you swipe the notification away.
Then, a day later you wake up to the notification that it has been installed successfully. Without even asking you. So yeah, I’m not saying Samsung is the only one. But try a Pixel phone. Or so they say.
It’s a consequence of retail. Because carriers in the US determine which phones most of us can access, with the exit of LG from the market the Android landscape in the US was effectively reduced to Samsung. Other manufacturers may as well not exist for all the average shopper is led to believe – the brick and mortar store where you pick out your phone gives you two options: iPhone or Samsung.
