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Samsung are big offenders for this, putting the Peel TV remote on their phones, which can't be uninstalled. Recently, the app was updated to put advertisements on your phone's homescreen. Completely unacceptable

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I don't buy Samsung anymore for this reason. I don't know if it's still the case but I also used to have like 2 versions of every app, the Google one and the Samsung one. I seemed to remember at one point I even had two SMS apps, totally ridiculous.

With the whole poor security of the SmartThings stuff, I have serious doubts about Samsung's ability in software. Their online services were dire, no SSO so I had to frequently re-login when I moved to a different part of portal, errors here and there.

Samsung hardware is still top-tier though. For the poweruser, an attractive option is a Samsung device rooted to remove all bloatware, and sometimes even flashed with the AOSP Android ISO (instead of the carrier-specific, pre-loaded operating system)

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