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What is bloatware?

What is bloatware? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (computing) Software that is packed with too many features and therefore slow or unwieldy; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an excessive amount of memory or disk space.
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Many PC makers have bitten the bullet over the past couple of years, and stopped loading up their desktops with preinstalled bloatware and ad-ware icons.
I don't believe we'll ever see a reversal of the trend towards bloatware in software.
Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware.
Though I appreciate a few choice apps as much as the next person, the phone simply came with a lot of distracting bloatware.
There's some undeletable bloatware, though mercifully less than we've seen on other new handsets recently.
So I'm starting to suspect that fretting about bloatware is more of a mental health problem than a software problem.

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