How many people do you think have actually used the Stocks app that comes pre-installed on iOS? How about the Compass app? The answer is probably only a handful, because those apps are completely useless to the vast majority of the population and aren’t even utilized by Apple’s other pre-installed apps. This is what we refer to as “bloatware,” and it’s one of the few things that’s universally hated by mobile users on every platform. But at least Android users can hide these apps so that they don’t clutter their homescreens, iOS users are forced to create a junk folder that only partially hides the apps. That may change in the near future, however, as hinted by Tim Cook in an interview with BuzzFeed.
