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I wish we had this option for mobile (android) phones which are preloaded with crapware (oftentimes permanently) even more than PCs are.

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That was one of the selling points to me for the Nexus line; not perfect, but Google's vision of Android without any of the manufacturer's extras

Well, I have a Nexus and I still see a few applications that I don't want and can't even remove. But you are right that it's a better than others I've seen.

What's worse though is that they apparently don't have any QA whatsoever since they pushed an update that made the device basically unusable (keywords: Nexus 7 2012 Android 5).

Well one can void one's warranty root and install cyanogen mod...

One shouldn't have to void the warranty of one's device to be rid of malicious software.

and then have it freeze and restart every day -__- (I guess is just my particular experience and might not apply to everyone)

To be fair. I didn't do this I'm running what came on it and mine freezes and restarts several times a day anyway...

Any Android 2.x I've touched was unusable piece of .. software. I seriously don't see how they dared to sell it to people. Can't even imagine what 1.x looked like. My experience with 4.x is much better in this regard.

And crash at random times in random apps.

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