the assistant?

But, what’s it called?

Just ”google”

Oh, that one.

thats just chrome without the UI or something

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox&hl=en

Of course that’s a thing that exists

And you can’t remove it?

dont think so

Disable but not remove

Its not same thing no matter how much they say it is

Same with all bloatware

You cant even disable everything

as long as you have debug you can

Are Huawei, LG and Sony like this too in terms of bloat?

With sony i think you can remove everything

Not only ”disable”

Its pretty close to stock but not stock

And imagine USfags here having to get a carrier locked phone. You get manufacturer + Google + carrier bloat

Cringe.

@fzz i think one carrier in us also gives every yahoo app with samsung

Does Verzion have their own browser? That would be typical.

Tmobile i think?

The absolute state of smartphones

OnePlus, Xiaomi and Lenovo are the future

You guys are ahead of time

Chinkshit is where it’s at

@fedora pm uninstall -k --user 0 <name of package> uninstalls almost any pre-installed stuff

from main user of the phone

if you have other users = you need to tinker more

Do you need root

no you dont

Cool this didnt exist back then i think

https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/

yeah its quite new thing

I wouldnt still buy samsung phone

If i buy new android phone it will be something like sony thats close to stockj

thing is that breaks phones if used wrong

I dont want to deal with duplicate apps anyways

inb4 redownloads every time you connect to the app store

Dont really feel like doing useless tinkering to make phones ”good” anymore