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It looks like Apple is literally copying Samsung, and not only in hardware (upcoming foldable iPhone), but in the services and in advertising them inside the UI. Even the names are similar.

This is not a good thing. Not for Apple, and not for Android, as in terms of exerting gravity on the market, Apple is a supermassive black hole. Anything they do instantly becomes normalized as a business practice.

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Definitely. But at least on Samsung phones, you can uninstall the packages from the user partition and in that way rip most of that stuff out (like the McAfee scanner in security, Bixby, Gemini, OneDrive, etc.).

So, yeah, they are copying, but by virtue of the ecosystem being less open, you are mostly stuck with it.

You can disable Samsung's system apps using adb as well. The command is `adb uninstall --user 0 com.package.name`

That is what I was alluding to, though I recommend people to use UAD-ng, since it explains what each package is and they are separated in safety-based categories.

One note though: removal of system apps with adb is blocked in Android 17. You can only disable system apps on Android 17:

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an...

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