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Haven't Samsungs always been trash though? From a software perspective, I mean?
I've never owned one, but I've tried to troubleshoot a few for relatives, and always found their version of Android to be just cunty.
Yeah, always their own version of , used by 2 people per month but always running in background. I heard they feared to be thrown out of "Android" certificate program (no Play Store anymore).
Their launcher was always slow and laggy and a ressource hog and only got better, because hardware got better.
My last Samsung was to Kitkat times (Galaxy S3) but even then the whole boot chain was basically custom made (guess for knox) and you had to use their proprietary paid software to edit boot animations. And always needed a Samsung version.
Sadly, dad is Samsung fan because i have to disable half of preinstalled apps and replace with better alternatives, once he gets a new phone.
Basically, Samsung is good at hardware and bad at software.
I had the S3 and it was barely usable after some years. Threw... What was lineage before the switch? Cyanogen? ... on it and it ran like never before. Samsung software is dogshit.
Cyanogen!!
They used to push their own apps way too hard, and had a terrible UI. But it is a lot better these days. As is evident in this article they are still pieces of shit.
They have always had good hardware I think, but their firmware and apps went total shit years ago. I liked their old ones like the S5 and S4 that had notification LEDs and unlockable bootloaders for custom ROMs
Yeah they have, my uncle had a cheaper Samsung and in the sound settings there was a button for samsung sound settings, which had the exact same settings, but they acted differently. Some acted the same and would also change say a slider on the normal menu and some wouldn't.