[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hotleadsingerguy:
Just a quick little post...

Starting off with a rude awakening: If you don't like it, don't buy it. Thinking you're "owed" something simply because Google said it was their gameplan 2 years ago is ludicrous. Google has every right to change their mind daily. If they wanted all Android phones to come out in bright pink with a disco ball attached it would be their right. If you don't like it, that's one thing, but people saying you're disappointed in Google like you know Schmidt and speak to them on a daily basis? Get over yourselves. You're one of hundreds of millions of people that buy their product...and frankly in the *STARK* minority. There's a reason they don't usually sell many Nexus devices (relative to other big names). Google doesn't design them for the masses, they design them for a smaller minority of people...and maybe they've changed the target audience, this time.

As for bloatware...considering nobody has even *SEEN* a Verizon model of the phone, this is still all speculation. How do you know that they didn't install those 2 apps just for the video showcase? The articles that talk about the video are speaking as if they were the ones recording it...in reality this is a Google video. Nobody knows anything more than the video shows us all.

And as for whether it's really bloatware...actually those apps do things that Android, itself, does not. Currently, the app is the only way to view up-to-the-day usage and account information. The website is a bit more delayed and making changes to your plan using the web from a mobile device is a pain, as anyone who's ever tried would know. The Backup app is the *only* way to get backed up contacts and information from many of the Verizon devices. Anyone coming from a device that didn't use Google contacts (anything non-Android and even some Android devices) has *ABSOLUTELY* no way of porting over contacts to the new Nexus unless they use this app. It's the only way to connect to their database and retrieve the information.

Once again, that's not to necessarily say those apps are even installed, by default. They very well might not be; however, I don't think the Backup app is even in the Market (I have never looked, but I'm not sure).

And a final note, the reason Google might have backed down on the "purely vanilla, no bloatware from carriers" stance is because they've integrated ways of removing it all. And before people say "BUT IT'S NOT REMOVED!"...please tell me you're kidding. That's akin to saying the ghost in your house really bothers you. You can't see or feel him and he doesn't do anything, but you're sure he's there.

The apps are still stored on the device, but they don't run and they don't appear *anywhere*. Would it make you this mad if Google had placed a dummy file somewhere in the file structure that isn't connected to anything? Because, in essence, that's what the apps end up being.

Synopsis: Either stop complaining about the device, since you're going to buy it anyway, or don't buy it. It's a *very* simple decision that most children learn quickly and seems to escape most people on the internet. If you want to complain once the phone is actually *OUT*, be my guest. As of right now? You don't know anything more about this phone than you know of the Loch Ness Monster. Wait until you have proof before you blast off your insults to everyone around you.