[bracketfocus]

Yes, but if the phone shipped with less bloatware on the system partition, then maybe that partition would be made smaller initially.

Meaning the user would have access to more of the phone’s advertised storage.

[Henchman21]

You have succeeded in splitting hairs down to the atomic level. Fissionable HN comments!!

[charcircuit]

Or perhaps there would be less incentive for the OEM optimize for disk space and it ends up taking the same amount of space.