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Samsung makes gorgeous, inexpensive products but their software leaves a lot to be desired. I never understood the boosters of the GSIII, really. I can understa
by homosaur 14y ago
Samsung makes gorgeous, inexpensive products but their software leaves a lot to be desired. I never understood the boosters of the GSIII, really. I can understand loving the hardware and the form factor but I booted it up once, saw the third party Android shell and put it back on the shelf.
I still don't get what manufacturers are thinking here. I know they want to differentiate their devices and have unique features but I've yet to see an Android shell that wasn't buggy, slow, and usually ugly.
Not only does their software suck, but it keep users from updating their phones. I suffered through this with the horrible worthless Motorola Photon 4G (don't buy Moto phones kids, they are garbage), a dual core piece of overpowered bugware they wouldn't bring to Android 4 because they were too lazy to rewrite their nearly worthless third party tools like Moto Blur.
Companies like Samsung and Motorola clearly cannot handle software development and should leave it to the pros instead of cluttering and messing up an attractive, usable interface.
- timdorr 14y agoIt's funny you mention Motorola as an example of bad software, since Google owns them now. They're trying to maintain a separation between the two companies, and I guess that's a sign that it's working!
- homosaur 14y agoWell to be fair to Googlerola, the Photon 4G was a pre-Google phone. I haven't tried any of the post-Google phones.