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Re:Google Changes Tack on Android by pyre on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @11:16PM (#3980293) 

  > no extra skins
On the other hand, I have found some of the features of Samsung's skin to be more useful than stock Android. The competition is good.
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Re:Google Changes Tack on Android by rogerbinns on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:47AM (#3980675)
I have a Samsung tablet where I really don't want some of their crud. (The device came with no less than 3 apps named "Music", and two named "Books".) I'd strongly prefer the vanilla Honeycomb skin and not Touchwiz, but I don't get that choice.

What they could have done is make it possible to turn off. And sell it in the Android market for other non-Samsung devices. (If it is that good then other people will want it.)

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Re:Google Changes Tack on Android by ktsmith on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @12:04PM (#3982600)
I've got a handful of Samsung devices and I'm sick and tired of touchwiz on all of them. It's not consistent between devices and versions, it duplicates features and software that's already built in, and it's bloated/slow.
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