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The four horsemen of shitty chat apps
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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Android also has this problem with stock and Google apps. google stopped using the name Google on their apps so now Google contacts is contacts, google clock is clock, etc. so you get two apps for each, one stock and one google except you don't know which is which because they're both called the same name and usually have very similar icons.
Go into Settings > Apps > and there you see the apps internal name. com.google.something is Google app. Disable it and clear cache & data.
Or...they could have a saner, simpler solution for their own OS.
Ah, but it's Google, so, no.
Isn't it fall to the OEM that specifically uses google technology to disable it if they want people to use their version? Android can be used without google after all.
They don't want to.
On Google's own phones these apps are the stock apps, and afaik OEMs don't have to preinstall ALL of those apps, only the Play ones. Blame other OEMs for making it so confusing.