[FONT="]Sort of like when Penny commented to Sheldon one episode of The Big Bang Theory, “So now we’re jibber-jabbering about jibber-jabbering”. [/FONT]
A perfect and concise definition some years ago. Nowadays the OS publishers are as culprit as the OEM for bloatware. Think to W10. Everything between the LTSB and Pro is SW forcefully bundled, mostly with the same purpose as MacAfee or Norton bundeld by Acer or HP. The same is applicable to Android. The google apps were something like 13 MB until few years ago, now the full bundle is a monster bigger than the whole XP ISO...
On the other hand, my OEM, namely HP, has added a "HP Support Assistant" in the SysTray even, which I find useful, have actually used to update its drivers, and do not consider bloatware. Thus, the user's subjective element also comes into the definition.
Every man installs himself what is needed. All the rest is bloatware. Most of the current Windows is bloatware, because most of the people don't need it never.
One can either make a clear definition of bloatware or consider an own idea of it... Each installed app that is not part of the OS itself 'bloats'.... Nowadays 'bloatware' has become a bad variety...as means of 'capitalistic' interests.....if you install my app to the default installation you get $$ per sold copy..... The first thing I always did at a OEM preinstalled machine was to re-partition it and format all the partitions. Then I made a clean install of the official ISO.... Nowadays the official ISO/FW is full of bloat already....and on Android not uninstallable without to be rooted. The reason why android has to be rooted and comes without root access is NOT the promised security, it is made to prevent de-installing what THEY say one needs.! I consider that as dictation. It's started with 'whitelists'...hardware which is allowed to run only...now we have bloat as sysapp....
Cannot say better. ..whitelists hardware.. <-- Hate Hewlett Packard for this. Really hate. My HP laptop does not start even with a 3rdparty wlan module. Will NEVER buy HP any more.
Thinkpads are the same,I think, since the IBM days. The official explanation is the FCC certification, but surely selling a 50$ 3G card for 150$ contributes a lot to abide strictly to the certification rules.
“Poetic License” … a play on words: liberty taken in deviating from a rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect. In this case humor.