> I wanted a Samsung phone but a pure Android experience That's Samsung's fault. > Shouldn't have to buy a phone direct from Google to get that. Oh, I comple

> I wanted a Samsung phone but a pure Android experience That's Samsung's fault. > Shouldn't have to buy a phone direct from Google to get that. Oh, I completely agree, but Samsung doesn't want to simply provide OEM Android because they think that the add-ons distinguish them in a crowded market. > Apple is a hardware company Google is not. But Apple's limited hardware offering is why they can guarantee you such a pure Apple experience. The equivalent exists in the Google ecosystem. It's buying one of the phones directly from the Google Play store. The only difference is that in the Apple ecosystem there isn't choice, so you don't get to see better hardware spec'd phones that run IOS, while in the Android ecosystem you do.