You can choose between paying the normal price for a new phone from an original store, or taking the carrier discount in exchange for this type of shit. The advertising and bloatware pay for the carrier discount! The same is true for Xiaomi phones, for example; excellent hardware, funded by ads packed into the operating system.
These phones are great for people who know how to install a custom ROM, which is why enthusiasts will sometimes buy them. For everyone else: save up and buy a phone without bloatware if you’re annoyed by this stuff.
As long as there are suckers who are willing to save a buck with carrier discounts, we will see these complaints. They would do it on iPhone if they could, but they can’t; that’s why the carrier discounts for iPhones are generally smaller than the Android ones.
This is mostly true however there are sometimes discounts on phones without all this shit. I just got my son a Pixel 7 yesterday (my wife and I already have one). T-Mobile took $400 off the phone and waved the activation fee. It came out to $4 a month.
You can choose between paying the normal price for a new phone from an original store, or taking the carrier discount in exchange for this type of shit. The advertising and bloatware pay for the carrier discount! The same is true for Xiaomi phones, for example; excellent hardware, funded by ads packed into the operating system.
These phones are great for people who know how to install a custom ROM, which is why enthusiasts will sometimes buy them. For everyone else: save up and buy a phone without bloatware if you’re annoyed by this stuff.
As long as there are suckers who are willing to save a buck with carrier discounts, we will see these complaints. They would do it on iPhone if they could, but they can’t; that’s why the carrier discounts for iPhones are generally smaller than the Android ones.
This is mostly true however there are sometimes discounts on phones without all this shit. I just got my son a Pixel 7 yesterday (my wife and I already have one). T-Mobile took $400 off the phone and waved the activation fee. It came out to $4 a month.