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by na85 3868 days ago
Samsung has nobody to blame but itself for the steady trickle of Android users leaving the platform for greener pastures on the Apple side.

Samsung's bloated, poorly-performant "value adds" are the reason Android is perceived to be laggy and unresponsive. Instead of just selling quality devices with a polished, professional operating system, they seem to have this pathological need to alter the vanilla Android install and bundle a bunch of crapware with every release. They're the budget laptop maker of the mobile space, like Dell used to be in the laptop space, back when the standard first step after receiving a new laptop was (is?) to instantly reformat so you lose all the OEM apps.