I don't have an opinion on the man personally, but I won't buy a Samsung TV as they are ad riddled, terrible to use and are pretty fragile.
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Phones are the same. Haven't touched them since the S6.
My Samsung monitor (which was very expensive) also has hardware deficiencies, leading to broken images and flickering.
The phones are absolutely not the same, you just have a shitty carrier that installed extra stuff on your phone
I bought my Samsung phone directly from Samsung and my carrier is a BYOB Mobile Virtual Network Operator. Before I ever connected my new phone to the carrier network it was riddled with bloatware that I can't uninstall. Yes carriers are guilty of installing crap, but Samsung is just as guilty.
I've bought several Samsung phones over the years and this is the second factory direct phone I've received that was like this, they didn't used to do this crap. Since this seems to be the norm now this will probably be the last Samsung I buy and when it's time to replace I'll just get a pixel and flash grapheneos on it, been curious about trying that anyway.
I had a Samsung phone (A20E) which was by some margin the most terrible piece of technology I've ever used. Barely functional a couple weeks from buying. This is anecdotal, of course, but since those are mass-produced and supposedly identical from unit to unit...
Samsung is not a carrier.
That's literally my point
...what? Samsung is the one installing bloatware. The carrier may add their own but you can avoid that by simply not buying those locked models. You can't avoid the Samsung bloatware.
I dunno, dawg. I've been buying unlocked Samsung phones for like 10 years and I'm not sure what kind of bloatware or ads you're talking about
So you have zero Samsung apps on any Samsung phones you've ever purchased? Lies.
What, are you talking about the calculator, camera, and note apps that come installed on the phone? That's not bloatware, that's like basic functionality 😂
- Samsung Internet
- Samsung Health
- Samsung Cloud
- PENUP
- Samsung Notes
- Microsoft Outlook
- Samsung Keyboard
- Samsung Email
- Samsung Pay
- Samsung Members
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- Samsung SmartThings
- Samsung Health
- Samsung Kids
- Samsung Pay
- Samsung Pass
- Samsung Flow
- Samsung Music
- Samsung Bixby
- Samsung Maps
- Samsung Galaxy Wearable
You're gonna sit there and tell me that none of this is on your phone?
It doesn't matter if they're "basic" or not. The point is I don't want them, they're not necessary, I cannot remove them, and I don't find it acceptable that someone else gets to charge me hundreds of dollars and then turn around and control what software is allowed to be on my phone. If you're fine with having bloatware on your phone, that's fine, you can just say that. It's ok.
I think they mean Bixby and OneUI and similar, but I have been using Google phones for a while so I could be very out of touch
My 16 year old Samsung TV would like to argue otherwise! It's a beast and 1080p is plenty good for me! But my Samsung kitchen? Holy crap it's all so terrible...
You bought before all the SmartTV nonsense then. So did I, and my Samsung TV is still doing well. I bought it >10 years ago to watch the Olympics or something with my in-laws, and now it's still trucking along just fine in my bedroom (eventually got a bigger LG for the main room). No issues whatsoever.
And their oversaturated, over sharpened pictures just look nasty to me.
They have commercial tvs for kiosks, hotels, etc though a bit more expensive don’t have any of that junk.
Well I'm sure they'll get another one.
They had two already. Now the question is if they'll hire a couple more to get back to three, or stick with one for a while.
I sincerely hope he was a good man, and my heart goes out to his survivors, especially his daughter since he died at her wedding.
I know nothing about him, and probably won't bother learning more.
Anyway, what does this have to do with technology? Does the other CEO have a very different plan for the company or something that this CEO was blocking? If not, this doesn't seem all that important.
Anyway, what does this have to do with technology?
Samsung is one of the largest tech companies in the world. I don't think that's debatable.
A spoon is technology, do you see posts about spoons here?
There is no spoon.
Be the spoon my friend
The big one or the small one ? I'd rather be the small one tonight if you don't mind
Have there been any interesting newsworthy developments for spoons?
Okay, an article from 2021 about a niche kind of spoons. If that is the best example of developments in the spoon industry I fully understand why it gets no attention on e.g. lemmy.
Alright, what spoon news do you have to share?
A spoon is a utensil and not technology in the context of this community. Samsung is all about technology. They're huge.
Whatever you say.
Does the other CEO have a very different plan for the company
I mean they almost certainly will...
Why? They had two co-CEOs, and now one of them died. Is it really a given they'd change direction suddenly after the other passed? Surely they're already a known quantity in the org...
The best thing that can happen to a CEO.
Is this the parasite that bribed the president?