Samsung always had nice hardware and the worst software I’ve ever seen.
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Etterra@discuss.online 6 days ago
I have a Samsung phone so every time Android updates it downloads 3 new, shitty games that nobody asked for. A few times I played them just long enough to be able to leave a negative review and complaint on the Play store before deleting them. I know there’s no benefit but it does make me smile to tell them exactly how much I hate their bloatware trash games.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Bruhh@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Can I ask what samsung? Could be a carrier thing because this has never happened to me
Etterra@discuss.online 6 days ago
Verizon, USA. It doesn’t matter, next time I get a phone it’s gonna be a Fairphone or whatever, n I’m such of Samsung’s bullshit.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 days ago
get a pixel and put graphene on it
Krzd@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Get a fairphone. I’ve had 2 (3 and 5) and no issues at all. Pixels are nice too, but I’ve had 2 friends with batteries dying.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
i have t mobile try that shit but it at least gives me the option to not install anything. still annoying though, because why the fuck would i play any other mobile game when i already have balatro and backyard baseball
Etterra@discuss.online 5 days ago
Oh hell no, they swallowed Primeco back in the day and their customer service was shit and I swore them off forever, and I will never let that grudge go.
Amir@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Get a Pixel with open source ROM instead
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 days ago
Yeah this is generally a carrier thing and why people should be buying manufacturer unlocked phones and not directly from the carriers
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 days ago
I genuinely can’t remember the last carrier phone I had. I get whatever $200 every few years. So far it’s been a Sony, a used pixel, and a Motorola, and I just found out my current Motorola is supported by graphene, so I might see how long I can make it last. It’s honestly perfect, the Sony was/is beautiful but had a slightly wrap around the sides screen making it very sensitive in the way you hold it even with a case.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 days ago
I worked for a phone manufacturer for a while and got to see firsthand the wild BS that happens with carriers. Primarily how the carrier-branded SKUs consistently provided a much sloppier experience than unlocked. Verizon was pretty bad about it, but Boost Mobile was the absolute worst, loading apps so sketchy that every once in a while Android’s own malicious app removal mechanisms would remove them. One time they preloaded an app that actually caused certain system functionality to not work correctly and we had to start advising people to disable that particular app.
I laughed so hard when the Sprint/T-Mobile merger happened and Boost was propped up to supposedly become national carrier. Looks like they were allowed to fail at that and sell off their radio spectrum and are back to being a MVNO
wieson@feddit.org 5 days ago
I think forced apps (vendor lock-in ) are forbidden in the EU
cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Still, every update it still offered these apps. I also used to have this problem. If you just blindly clicked through an update it’ll install them.