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High-end Samsung phones are the only reason I'm still on Android. Google (Pixel), One Plus, Huawei, and most other Android phone designers/manufacturers have n

High-end Samsung phones are the only reason I'm still on Android. Google (Pixel), One Plus, Huawei, and most other Android phone designers/manufacturers have not been able to reach Samsung/Apple quality for the past five or more years.

dilyevsky 4y ago
It’s hilarious that internally googlers always used to poo poo vendors in private conversations but imo you’re absolutely right - samsung essentially holds the whole brand afloat. Although not by choice - they tried replacing android and failed miserably
- dagmx 4y ago
  They sort of succeeded though with replacing Android Wear
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  Which is embarrassing, because they're one of the most insecure vendors...
  - nokya 4y ago
    "one of the most insecure vendors" The way you wrote it makes it sound like most vendors sell secure software but not Samsung, which isn't true at all: all vendors sell insecure software except very few exceptions. The fact that Samsung cannot build secure software doesn't mean they're bad at it. It means they're not better than the others, which is very different from calling then the most insecure software company. Application security in information security is what climate change is in politics: an underdog, strongly opposed, and massively misunderstood. The simple fact that you are aware that Samsung produces code, which contains many security vulnerabilities, is an indicator that it is probably doing much better than a lot of other companies ;)
ratg13 4y ago
Same, but I'm so done with the uninstallable facebook apps. When I got my galaxy 10 I went in and disabled all the facebook apps since you can't uninstall them. I went an checked the status a year later, and the original ones were still disabled, but they had pushed additional facebook apps to me behind the scenes without me knowing. I don't get why samsung needs facebook money this badly to invade their customer's privacy. Now it's time to upgrade and I'm reluctant to buy Samsung, Pixel seems to be garbage .. not sure where to turn next.
neop1x 4y ago
In my opinion newer Sony Xperia androids are okay-ish too, I am happy. They are closer to stock android though and may look less fancy. Samsung is very polished and consistent even during major Android version changes.

dilyevsky 4y ago

It’s hilarious that internally googlers always used to poo poo vendors in private conversations but imo you’re absolutely right - samsung essentially holds the whole brand afloat. Although not by choice - they tried replacing android and failed miserably

dagmx 4y ago
They sort of succeeded though with replacing Android Wear
aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
Which is embarrassing, because they're one of the most insecure vendors...
- nokya 4y ago
  "one of the most insecure vendors" The way you wrote it makes it sound like most vendors sell secure software but not Samsung, which isn't true at all: all vendors sell insecure software except very few exceptions. The fact that Samsung cannot build secure software doesn't mean they're bad at it. It means they're not better than the others, which is very different from calling then the most insecure software company. Application security in information security is what climate change is in politics: an underdog, strongly opposed, and massively misunderstood. The simple fact that you are aware that Samsung produces code, which contains many security vulnerabilities, is an indicator that it is probably doing much better than a lot of other companies ;)

ratg13 4y ago

Same, but I'm so done with the uninstallable facebook apps. When I got my galaxy 10 I went in and disabled all the facebook apps since you can't uninstall them. I went an checked the status a year later, and the original ones were still disabled, but they had pushed additional facebook apps to me behind the scenes without me knowing. I don't get why samsung needs facebook money this badly to invade their customer's privacy. Now it's time to upgrade and I'm reluctant to buy Samsung, Pixel seems to be garbage .. not sure where to turn next.

neop1x 4y ago

In my opinion newer Sony Xperia androids are okay-ish too, I am happy. They are closer to stock android though and may look less fancy. Samsung is very polished and consistent even during major Android version changes.