Good post, might not serve most people here lol but good nonetheless.
As far as android phones, you can get away from preinstalled apps, even some system apps. No one needs google playstore if they can learn to use alternatives like apkmirror, fdroid, etc.
For folks with a little geek in them its easy to rip out apps from most android phones with android debug bridge. Tutorial here...
https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-system-app-bloatware-android/Example, to "rip out" playstore the powershell command would be .\adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.android.vending
It doesnt actually remove the playstore, just basically takes it out of use for that user. It can get funky and screw up a lot of schitt if you rip out the wrong stuff
I hate bloatware and apps I never use. Besides, most of the apps, even though theyre not in use, "call home" ...A LOT! On my home network I run pihole to block a lot of BS. But...its a never ending task to block most of these intrusive companies.
