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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by tooltalk on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:00PM (#18603564)
Well, did Samsung promise this notification feature in their marketing campaign? I considered buying one for this exact feature, but decided not to buy it after TMobile sales folks confirmed that notification worked with Samsung apps only. I don't think however Samsung deliberately misled or lied. Now that isn't to say Samsung support is wonderful -- I personally wouldn't recommend buying anything other than TVs from Samsung.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by folkhack on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:46PM (#18604555)
> Well, did Samsung promise this notification feature in their marketing campaign?

Nope - but it's something I would expect any smartwatch to do. It's just a dark pattern and they don't GAF for any actual use-case.

> I don't think however Samsung deliberately misled

Yea this is where we disagree. It's a dark pattern to force users to use their ecosystem fully. What about my corp. Outlook, HipChat, G-suite products, etc etc!? If it shows a notification on the phone - it should show a notification on the watch like my Garmin. Period.

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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by shard on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:51PM (#18605562)
That's strange, did something change drastically for the latest Galaxy Watch? I have a Gear S2 from a few years ago, and I can get Outlook / GMail / WeChat / Kakaotalk notifications just fine. In fact, I was getting notifications from so many random apps, I started silencing most of them.
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