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by Joe Levi | January 4, 2013 1:24 PMRead OnFor some reason carriers like to load up "their" phones with apps that they think you want. These apps take up space on an already limited storage partition, they occupy screen real-estate in your app drawer, and in most cases you can't remove them. We affectionately refer to these apps as "bloatware" because just like after eating a big holiday meal, they leave our phones feeling lethargic and overweight. Because OEMs and carriers install bloatware as system apps, you've got to have root permissions to remove them. Most of the time that means unlocking, rooting, and installing a custom ...
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by Joe Levi | September 10, 2012 10:18 AMRead OnBloatware has been with us since the early days of desktop and laptop computers. OEMs "pre-packaged" applications that the thought would "add value" and make their products more desirable than their competition. Of course this meant their competition would respond by simply adding even more on their computers. Eventually, software vendors got the idea of providing "incentives" to OEMs for pre-bundling software. This lead to some computers coming so pre-loaded with bloatware that some OEMs began offering customization services to remove the pre-loaded apps -- for a fee. We've seen the same ...
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