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True, Samsung makes a big deal of it. But they don’t actually deserve that title imo. They’re hardly a worthy contender. I am not an apple fan boy, but Samsung

True, Samsung makes a big deal of it. But they don’t actually deserve that title imo. They’re hardly a worthy contender. I am not an apple fan boy, but Samsung is just nowhere close to the apple experience.

chrisjc 5y ago
> but Samsung is just nowhere close to the apple experience. True... they're only the next closest. After fleeing the Google ecosystem, my only seriously choices were Samsung or Apple. I do miss the Android OS, but not going back to the bloat and data-vacuums that are intertwined with it.
pmontra 5y ago
Well, I own a few Samsung devices. There is no Samsung experience. I don't bother signing in into a Samsung account or using their store. What for? I already have to be signed in into Google's store to get updates for the apps I must use. Samsung's one is useless and it's not the reason I bought from them. I bought an A40 because it was the smallest Android phone on the market (and yet almost one inch too tall) and a tablet (S5e?) because it had Linux in DeX. By the way, I keep Google usage minimal. I don't need most of their services. Even YouTube works without an account and I'm using NewPipe most of the time. What I really need is Play, only to update maps, Maps mostly because of satellite images (I use OSMAnd) and Translate as a dictionary. Syncthing and KDE connect deal with backup and file transfer.
- rjzzleep 5y ago
  Until recent Samsung smart devices, you HAD to use their store and the experience was horrendous. Full of nonworking paid apps, no working review system that I could see, it was an absolute nightmare to use. It's actually quite sad cause the hardware itself wasn't bad and the battery life of Tizen was fantastic.
- asddubs 5y ago
  I really do hate how big phones have gotten now. If it wasn't for f-droid I would just get an iphone, at least they make phones in sane sizes
  - pmontra 5y ago
    The old SE was nice. The new SE is big. The 12 mini is a little smaller.
- vladvasiliu 5y ago
  > and a tablet (S5e?) because it had Linux in DeX. Is that still a thing? A few years ago I was interested in that, as an alternative to a laptop, but I seem to remember that it was on the way out.
  - pmontra 5y ago
    They dropped support. The update to Android 10 removes it. Probably because 16.04 is EOL and they should have paid Canonical again to make X11 and possibly other systems work on Android. The number of users of that feature was probably low.

chrisjc 5y ago

> but Samsung is just nowhere close to the apple experience. True... they're only the next closest. After fleeing the Google ecosystem, my only seriously choices were Samsung or Apple. I do miss the Android OS, but not going back to the bloat and data-vacuums that are intertwined with it.

pmontra 5y ago

Well, I own a few Samsung devices. There is no Samsung experience. I don't bother signing in into a Samsung account or using their store. What for? I already have to be signed in into Google's store to get updates for the apps I must use. Samsung's one is useless and it's not the reason I bought from them. I bought an A40 because it was the smallest Android phone on the market (and yet almost one inch too tall) and a tablet (S5e?) because it had Linux in DeX. By the way, I keep Google usage minimal. I don't need most of their services. Even YouTube works without an account and I'm using NewPipe most of the time. What I really need is Play, only to update maps, Maps mostly because of satellite images (I use OSMAnd) and Translate as a dictionary. Syncthing and KDE connect deal with backup and file transfer.

rjzzleep 5y ago
Until recent Samsung smart devices, you HAD to use their store and the experience was horrendous. Full of nonworking paid apps, no working review system that I could see, it was an absolute nightmare to use. It's actually quite sad cause the hardware itself wasn't bad and the battery life of Tizen was fantastic.
asddubs 5y ago
I really do hate how big phones have gotten now. If it wasn't for f-droid I would just get an iphone, at least they make phones in sane sizes
- pmontra 5y ago
  The old SE was nice. The new SE is big. The 12 mini is a little smaller.
vladvasiliu 5y ago
> and a tablet (S5e?) because it had Linux in DeX. Is that still a thing? A few years ago I was interested in that, as an alternative to a laptop, but I seem to remember that it was on the way out.
- pmontra 5y ago
  They dropped support. The update to Android 10 removes it. Probably because 16.04 is EOL and they should have paid Canonical again to make X11 and possibly other systems work on Android. The number of users of that feature was probably low.