Re: So more users less advertisers
Samsung and other handset manufacturers frequently burn crapware (aka bloatware) onto the device whether the user wants them or not - Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, McAfee etc. On top of that the network might dump their own hot garbage on top.
This stuff is usually baked into the firmware so it wastes space that can never be recovered. And users can only disable this shit but it will never truly be removed. Doubtless it also impacts on firmware update frequency since it complicates testing & deployment.
Some phones which at least have the decency to put it on the user partition where it can be deleted but not all of them. But I've also seen other evil behaviour - I had to set up a Samsung phone recently which that used dark patterns to con new users into installing even more trash during setup through some ad service called Ironsource.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
