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Root it, use something like SDMaid to lock out the annoying apps. Done.

No idea if this voids your warranty, but I buy phones upfront and unsubsidised anyway so it's less of a concern.

Other than the principle that the user shouldn't have to wage war on his own phone, rooted phones are usually also blocked from corporate networks.

As the CEO of my own one-man company, I've decided to go with a fairly lenient policy on employee devices...

Until corporate networks stop demanding 8 character long pin every time I need to unlock, I will refuse to have corp mail on my phone.