They aren’t necessarily silly, but these options were definitely quirky, especially LG Wing.

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        3 months ago

        Shovelware and bloatware really aren’t the same thing though.

        Shovelware is low effort and often times copy pasted software. Bloatware is software a vendor decided you wanted without asking you. It can sometimes have some utility but usually only to some people.

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        3 months ago

        Shovelware is what you find on the Nintendo store. Software that comes pre installed on a device is specifically bloatware.

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        3 months ago

        It also a nice term… but for some reason bloatware term exactly describe the issue behind the problem.