Samsung has always made some of the best smartphones, and recently it’s been putting out some of the best laptops you can currently buy as well, but one thing has always put me off its products: the amount of bloatware that comes pre-installed.
The company's attempts to get me to use apps like Samsung Internet Browser, Samsung Wallet and Samsung Notes, when there are perfectly good Android alternatives, was one of the reasons why, when it was time to trade in my otherwise well-loved Galaxy Note 9, I decided to switch to the Pixel 7 Pro. Pixel handsets come with the least amount of bloatware, because they're made by Google, the company behind Android and the likes of Chrome, Google Wallet, and Google Keep – all apps and services I actually use.
