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Why I will never buy another Samsung device

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

natch wrote: post #193
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #98

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I'd wager it's a marketing play. Apple has developed it's own silicon and the chips powering iPhones, iPads and Macs are now the same. They come up with new and interesting manufacturing processes, or supply chain management. Their phones have lidar now. But you know what I've hear for years even from developer friends? "Apple can no longer innovate." Samsung comes up with a folding screen of dubious quality or chang…

>even from developer friends? "Apple can no longer innovate." You could consider getting new friends who are more intelligent. Some people are being fooled by the fact that a rectangle shape is staying consistent year after year, a very surface attribute. Apple does deep work. People who think only the surface matters are missing the story.

Samsung has 20% market share. About the same as Apple. If it works it works right?

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Post by aulin »

awildfivreld wrote: post #303
aulin wrote: post #232

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Which phone are you buying that lasts more? After two years the battery life nose dives, flash memory becomes slower, software updates become scarce. And by that time I usually have a broken screen. Good thing I only spend 200€ every two years on the latest trustworthy moto g. Clean google experience, no bloatware, nice gesture actions. A 1k€ phone would have to last 10 years to give comparable value, and I doubt it…

I've had a Samsung S8 for 4.5 years now, and it is still okay. Yeah it shows that it is old. The battery and performance is worse than before, but it still lasts the day as I am not using it that hard. I have no legitimate _need_ to upgrade as it stands today. I guess the frequency of upgrades quite heavily on usage, but I find upgrading every 2 years to be very often.

I believe the more you spend on a phone the more you're inclined to endure the performance degradation. With a cheap phone it's easier to let it go and buy a new one, so you always have a new, fast and updated device

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Post by ornornor »

p410n3 wrote: post #286
ornornor wrote: post #239

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Worked for Samsung a while back and can confirm all of the above. You couldn’t pay me enough to own and use a Samsung anything.

I'd love some examples of this. I'm about to buy a new phone and originally planned to get a s21/22. But now I'm questioning this. But I'd also like some more details on this

See parent’s links, Samsung is very proud of their automatic content recognition (ACR) and ad retargeting technologies. I also remember the tv scanning your network and hdmi devices to figure out what you own and add to your advertising profile.

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Post by phendrenad2 »

Samsung probably won't care, no matter how popular this story gets. Samsung is the de facto "Not Apple" device. They will have customers flocking to them. They don't need to do anything. They just need to stay a step ahead of LG (lol) and Motorola (double lol). It's hard to overemphasize how big their moat is. If you look at a list of "Top Android Phones" Samsung is always in spot 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, etc. (they lose a few positions to Google sometimes).

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ornornor wrote: post #271
dotancohen wrote: post #242

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Why?

I think it’s because they have so many variants for an appliance that it would be impossible to come up with English names (see ikea and their ridiculous names you can’t remember or infer anything from) At least the number of bits of info you can encore with the appliance VIN like scheme is meaningful.

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Post by mackrevinack »

ohthehugemanate wrote: post #236
midrus wrote: post #168

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Any alternatives? What would you recommend instead? I'm under the suspicion that every single Smart TV vendor has the same problems.

set up a raspberry pi or an old laptop with Kodi and use that. Don't plug your TV in to ethernet or give it wifi.

im using kodi myself. i used libreElec for a few years which is basically just kodi as an OS. i switched to a OSMC recently which is a bit more expensive than a raspberry pi but the hardware and then OSMC skin is a bit nicer

i mainly use it with the jellyfin plugin so all of my media is stored on a NAS and kodi just acts as the player

Re: Why I will never buy another Samsung device

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Post by ornornor »

dotancohen wrote: post #290
ornornor wrote: post #271

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I think it’s because they have so many variants for an appliance that it would be impossible to come up with English names (see ikea and their ridiculous names you can’t remember or infer anything from) At least the number of bits of info you can encore with the appliance VIN like scheme is meaningful.

I'm willing to bet that General Motors has no fewer variants of the Chevrolet Camaro that you can buy: with three different engine choices, two or three different transmission choices, with or without A/C, power steering, seat material, exteriour colour, stripes and badging package, interior colour, radio options, suspension packages, etc etc etc. It's still all sold as a Chevrolet Camaro and the vast majority of par…

That’s a good point, didn’t think about it.

Maybe it’s like the mattress industry: a scam so that you can’t compare or price match the same model at different retails because “it’s not the same model number”.

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Post by RamRodification »

tedunangst wrote: post #162
userbinator wrote: post #36

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I don't get the point of this design either, unless it's to show off deliberate planned obolescence. Two regular screens with ultra-narrow bezels on the butt edge would achieve the same effect, without the constantly stressed folding bit. I have some old (almost 10 years old now) smartphone LCDs and the pixels go right up to the edge of the glass itself.

The bezels would really need to be ultra narrow to not bother me while watching a video.

What if they were supra ultra megatronium narrow?

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Post by cma »

studiecomput wrote: post #176
_nalply wrote: post #175

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Buy a dumb screen. For example a big computer monitor. I know it's not the same but this is the only solution I know.

Or just don't connect your TV to the internet and buy an external streamer.

Samsung's smart tag find network could now or in the future be used to exfiltrate data from their smart tvs that arent connected. Not high bandwidth, so it would have to be OCR or text to speech probably. Just like Amazon's Sidewalk network.
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