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> The fact Android allows custom SMS apps doesn't seem like a bad thing. Only if it's clearly distinguishable. Call me old fashioned but I'd like to know if m
by thirdsun 8y ago
> The fact Android allows custom SMS apps doesn't seem like a bad thing.
Only if it's clearly distinguishable. Call me old fashioned but I'd like to know if my messages are handled by a core Google-developed android app or by some third party like Samsung, which clearly demonstrate that it shouldn't have that kind of access.
- jwandborg 8y agoSamsung is not a third party on a phone and OS developed by Samsung, it's more of an OEM.
- thirdsun 8y agoFair point. Let me rephrase it - I consider Samsung's OS itself an unnecessary third party on a phone that should be running official Android. Then again, I prefer iOS since I explicitely don't want to deal with the half-baked mess of an OS developed by incompetent OEMs.
- nolok 8y agoI don't understand your issue. If you want to use the normal sms app on a Samsung phone you're free to do. And Samsung doesn't hide that it isn't it, it actually makes it super obvious (because they want people to wish for Samsung, not for Android, see Tizen)
- nolok 8y agoIt its something of concern for you, its impossible to find it hard to know if your messaging app is by Google or not. Additionally, a Samsung sms app is really not third party on a Samsung phone. And lastly, the biggest concern about this on android is usually "how to get out of Google control" so being able to replace a core app like this by any that you prefer be it Google, Samsung or a special privacy oriented one is hardly something I can consider a disadvantage.