> Samsung may want to give the appearance of having its own non-Google ecosystem, and to do that, it clones every Google app that comes with its devices. Samsung is contractually obligated to include the Google apps, so you get both the Google and Samsung versions.

Unfortunately this is nothing new. I bought a Galaxy S7+ table nearly two years ago and it was infested with crappy Samsung apps (two calculators... why?).

Eventually I used adb to uninstall a bunch of stuff, but they're still taking up storage space even if I can't see them. Absurd.

Apart from the crapware it's a decent tablet though.