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Those apps are installed in the squashfs image. Such images are write once, read many and thus they can’t be mutated at runtime.

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PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well who made the decision to put non-system apps in the system partition?

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jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I know, and that’s exactly my point. They used to be in the user space, now they are in squashfs. They CHOSE to do this.

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- redhat421@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah. That’s a good point. I don’t know why anyone would put any frequently updated app in squashfs.
  
  I guess you can use the app right after you factory reset even if you don’t have much data which might be something? Are updates smaller since they’re just deltas?
  
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  - jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    In all honesty, I have no idea. I didn’t give the stock firmware enough time on my phone to check on anything other than the amount of tracking and the move to the system partition.
    
    As for the reason for putting them in this partition, I’m sold on the idea that it’s to keep the levels of invasion as high as possible while removing the user’s options to get rid of them.
    
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