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That's one of the reasons I'm not buying a device with Android 10. I find it intolerable that I can't uninstall most pre-installed apps. PlayMusic, PlayBooks, News, Drive. Hangouts, Assistant, GMail etc. are all apps I don't use. Nevertheless, they are still on my smartphone and take away important space. I understand that Google/Alphabet also wants to earn money but it's really annoying. I'm using the Firefox browser but still can't uninstall Google Chrome.

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The worst thing is that at least on my tablet, I get continual popups saying unfortunately Google Hangouts has stopped. No kidding Google - it's because I bloody well deleted it. Why force me to keep seeing it even if I never have and never will use it, and don't want it on my systems?

For some reason, my Android phone doesn't harass me like the tablet does. But I best end it here, lest I jinx myself.

Android used to be better than Apple's OS.

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