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Re:Google Warning: Millions of Android Phones Come Preloaded... by amaccuish on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:03PM (#20677391)
I don't buy Samsung anymore for this reason. I don't know if it's still the case but I also used to have like 2 versions of every app, the Google one and the Samsung one. I seemed to remember at one point I even had two SMS apps, totally ridiculous.

With the whole poor security of the SmartThings stuff, I have serious doubts about Samsung's ability in software. Their online services were dire, no SSO so I had to frequently re-login when I moved to a different part of portal, errors here and there.

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Re:Google Warning: Millions of Android Phones Come Preloaded... by adossi on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:43PM (#20677872)
Samsung hardware is still top-tier though. For the poweruser, an attractive option is a Samsung device rooted to remove all bloatware, and sometimes even flashed with the AOSP Android ISO (instead of the carrier-specific, pre-loaded operating system)
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