You mentioned iTunes and called it bloatware.
So is it your contention that computers and phones, should they have any software on them, push bloatware?
That’s where things get interesting.
See way back when people used to give DOS crap for being “incomplete”. Cause it didn’t have all these disk management tools and other stuff that “real” OSes had. Of course these days all the OSes come with a ton of crap nobody ever uses and everybody complains about bloatware. Where’s the line? I don’t know. My phone’s got a bunch of stuff I never use. Some came from Google, some from LG, some from Metro. Of course some of the stuff they put on their I use and you probably wouldn’t if your phone has an equivalent. I freaking live for Quickmemo+. But I haven’t listened to the radio in the 21st century and do not need an app for that (just picking a random icon on my phone). Maybe you have no urge for notes, but like radio.
So what is or isn’t bloatware? I think, in the end, it’s just something we complain about. For a while MS was putting these half baked Office apps on machines that looked like Word and Excel but weren’t, and couldn’t open real Word or Excel files, and couldn’t save in a format real Word or Excel could open. That crap was definitely bloatware. Everything else is up in the air. But I guarantee if I got an iPhone that iTunes crap would be deleted or hidden on my last screen. Cause that’s crap software.