They aren’t necessarily silly, but these options were definitely quirky, especially LG Wing.

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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.

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It was jokingly called LagWiz for a reason

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Samsung is really good at shipping software garbage software. Also known as bloatware.

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I like the term shovelware.

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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.

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Shovelware is what you find on the Nintendo store. Software that comes pre installed on a device is specifically bloatware.

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It also a nice term… but for some reason bloatware term exactly describe the issue behind the problem.

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