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It's the reason why, like many here, I have never bought a Samsung Android device (with the exception of the old Galaxy Nexus which was clear from Samsung total
by hbbio 12y ago
It's the reason why, like many here, I have never bought a Samsung Android device (with the exception of the old Galaxy Nexus which was clear from Samsung total software crap).
They tend to provide good hardware features (waterproof, camera, etc.) but they kill it with bad software. Had a few meetings with them a few years ago, and got the impression that they thought software is cheap and not worth improving.
- lucb1e 12y agoThe software on my Galaxy Note 2 was pretty fine though (this was just over a year ago). It broke down and I had the motherboard replaced (under warranty), when it got back it was wiped anyway so I figured I might as well try cyanogenmod. Expected a culture shock like when switching from a windows to a linux desktop, but it's really just the same. They ship pretty much stock android with a load of crap that you can disable. First boot you just disable their ChatOn and various Note pen features and you're good to go, it won't ever bother you and you have a nice Android system. Cyanogenmod sucks more power than the stock Samsung software did... Re-reading this, my first sentence is "the software [...] was pretty fine", well, I meant that they didn't mess up Android too badly. Their own software, I don't know, I'd totally ignore Knox simply because it's closed source and tries to do security. Now we've seen it fails, but even without that knowledge I wouldn't have wanted to use it.
- mikestew 12y ago> Their own software, I don't know, I've ranted about this more than enough on HN, so I'll summarize: Samsung's software is consistently complete shit. I would be truly surprised if during a security audit Knox turned out to be secure using even the most liberal definition of "secure".
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