voonyx said:
What are you rambling about? I provided a strict definition of what bloatware is, and you're countering me by giving examples that don't follow that definition? How does that work?
I can't believe people are now suggesting that Android doesn't have bloat...holy...crap.
Ok we will go off your definitions here
Myriad applications pre-installed on a PC by the vendor. Many PC manufacturers are paid by software vendors to pre-install lite versions of their products on the PCs they sell.
In addition, some of these applications load at startup, wasting memory and providing a potential for conflict with other applications. For a fee, some retailers offer to rid the new PC of bloatware for their customers.
The vendor is Apple.
Stock App - Loads at start up and installed by Apple (on top of that can not be removed or stop)
Game center -- Same as above
Reminders -- Same as above
Those are 3 common ones. and they all run all the time.
All Apple's stock apps are required and can not be removed without jail breaking. They are all required.
So under your own defenitions iOS has bloatware and the worse kind of bloatware. The kind that you can not removed, or even disable from running and is forced on you.