Shovelware and bloatware really aren’t the same thing though.
Shovelware is low effort and often times copy pasted software. Bloatware is software a vendor decided you wanted without asking you. It can sometimes have some utility but usually only to some people.
Man I’m surprised Samsung didn’t dominate this list. My galaxy S4 was filled with so many garbage features that I never used.
Samsung and their garbageware was like 50% of the reason why I switched to iOS for my main phone.
It was jokingly called LagWiz for a reason
Samsung is really good at shipping software garbage software. Also known as bloatware.
I like the term shovelware.
Shovelware is what you find on the Nintendo store. Software that comes pre installed on a device is specifically bloatware.
Shovelware and bloatware really aren’t the same thing though.
Shovelware is low effort and often times copy pasted software. Bloatware is software a vendor decided you wanted without asking you. It can sometimes have some utility but usually only to some people.
It also a nice term… but for some reason bloatware term exactly describe the issue behind the problem.