Even if they don't want to make it bloatware free (Samsung & Verizon make money off the included crapware), make it so that we can "completely" remove the apps from our phones instead of just hiding them.
I remember when computers came with tons of pre-installed software & games. Outside vendors would essentially subsidize the high cost of components that went into computers to keep them affordable. Back then you couldn't remove them like we can't remove bloatware today.
What changed is computer parts got cheaper and cheaper so the HP's & IBM's stopped relying on the subsidy that software provided. We have seen that same shift in smartphones or if it did occur, it was kept quiet to increase profits 😞
What needs to occur is every smartphone needs to be strippable to plain Android out of the box. Bloatware and UI enhancements needs to be removable out of the box.
Before you say it cannot be done think about third party launchers like Nova, Apex and the granddaddy Go Launcher. All of these programs are a UI like TouchWiz or Sense that force certain behaviors out of the Android base code.
There is no reason on Earth why Samsung, HTC, or LG could not make their changes to Android to operate like the theme launchers do.
They showed us the way, the way Android should be. If every phone was plain Android then software updates could take weeks instead of months.
