Horrible thought: Verizon Bloatware

[garberfc]

I wouldn't jump all over the OP for posting this. There's only one other thread that has bloatware in the title, and you would have to go back several pages in order to find it.
It may be mentioned in other threads, but how would the OP know?
Not unless their on here every day, all day... which most people do not.
There's only a few I've noticed that live and breath on the forums.

No worries. Not offended in the least!

 

[garberfc]

The problem is, 99% of the time the person getting rid of the application just clicks the "Uninstall" routine, and the developer who wrote the application did a piss-poor job of writing the uninstaller, so it leaves a bunch of garbage behind. Or the application is from a dubious source (many "free" apps you get online) that doesn't want to be uninstalled.

It's easy to completely get rid of an application on Windows, so long as you know what you're doing. Just like it's easy to root and a phone and uninstall all of the bloatware, so long as you know what you're doing. Notice the trend?

Having heard you say "It's easy to completely get rid of an application on Windows, so long as you know what you're doing." I'm even more skeptical. I don't know if there's a Windows application in existence that can be removed completely. Go scan your Windows registry for the application you've just uninstalled and see how many hits you get. The fact that most all applications install/overly DLLs to a shared directory make it impossible to back out earlier installs (Google DLL HELL).

I believe the Android / Linux model is much cleaner, having all an applications executable code in one place should make it much easier to uninstall...