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There is nothing about the Virtual Reality deal with Facebook? Is Facebook a non-removal builtin app with the S7?
The Gear VR app has it's own built in app store. It's kind of like a mini OS.
You still have to installed Facebook & Messenger App through the Play Store.
Samsung has good hardware, but their software is so bad. I didn't mind because I could root it and install cyanogen. But they made that impossible to do on the S4. That's just malicious. I'm convinced their software engineers have a competition to see who can write the worst code without getting fired and get it shipped. Clearly nobody has ever been fired at samsung. Their awful software combined with their pathologi…
Samsung has good hardware, but their software is so bad. I didn't mind because I could root it and install cyanogen. But they made that impossible to do on the S4. That's just malicious. I'm convinced their software engineers have a competition to see who can write the worst code without getting fired and get it shipped. Clearly nobody has ever been fired at samsung. Their awful software combined with their pathologi…
What exactly is so bad about their software?
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> Good luck getting rapid Android updates for your carrier-modified Samsung Galaxy S7. I'm stuck with a T-Mobile Note 4 with 5.1.1. Is this still true? This article seems to suggest Samsung is more committed to OS updates http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-makes-good-its-promise-reve...
Not true in practice. Samsung may pass the updates to the carrier, but the carriers fail to respond in a timely fashion.
Samsung has good hardware, but their software is so bad. I didn't mind because I could root it and install cyanogen. But they made that impossible to do on the S4. That's just malicious. I'm convinced their software engineers have a competition to see who can write the worst code without getting fired and get it shipped. Clearly nobody has ever been fired at samsung. Their awful software combined with their pathologi…
What exactly is so bad about their software?
This is not the first.
* poor battery life * you can't uninstall all the bloatware.
As someone who is running a custom rom on an s6 edge, I can confirm: the software us also the reason for the poor battery life. I regularly get 10 hours usage time out of my phone. It easily survives 24 hours of light use. My rom isn't anything special or battery oriented; it's just a version of TouchWiz android with all the S-features removed.
Imagine what Samsung could do if they shipped that way. Their 2015 offering would have been one of the best built phones on the market, also leading the pack in performance AND battery life. Imagine the S7 series if they didn't have to pack extra battery into the enclosure.
Their business plan must hinge on selling the extra data collected through S-crap. But I can't imagine it's worth more than, say, raising the price by $20 per unit.
Hell, they could offer a "vanilla" version of the phone for $100 more and get plenty of takers... And silence the critics.
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When your friend sees your non-factory clean S6, he associates all those custom features with an S6, and not a rooted S6. Wouldn't the fact that "you can do all these cool things once it's rooted" increase the perceived value and help drive sales and push towards manufacturers making it easier to root? IMHO the big selling point is all the apps, not just what software came with the hardware.
Not if people mess up their phones I suppose. Personally all I really want is proper full image backups, and a few little tweaks like the ability to turn off the stupid sound whenever it's plugged in and proper nighttime colour filtering.