[bythckr]

I feel that the software products & services that Samsung builds is half-baked. It might be a pressure tactic to ensure Google keeps paying.

Also, I am wonder what happened of Samsung & Microsoft plans of Samsung shelving its app & services for Microsoft. I feel that was the "real motivation" for Google to start paying.

Google needs to be challenged for an improvement in Android space. They should stop rushing in half baked stuff and instead work on releasing reliable & well tested products.

As a person that actively used android, iOS, Linux, Windows & Mac, Apple's stuffs just work and it's high time the competition catches up.

As for Android, we need to have flavour / custom ROMs that is 100% degoogled and with proper alternatives. Ubuntu, Microsoft & LinageOS all need to up their game and get more people involved.

[selestify]

As another person who's used all of those OS's as well, Apple's stuff sadly does not "just work" anymore for me, but it does still work better than other ones

[_coveredInBees]

Samsung gets a bad rap when it comes to software imo. There used to be a time when it was perhaps well deserved but that was a LONG time ago. Samsung's browser is hand's down the best Android browser I have used in years and continue to use. It has fantastic built-in dark mode support, ad blocking and is amazingly snappy and responsive. Far superior to Chrome and Firefox as well as anything else I've tried.

I've used my S9+ with their flavor of Android and other integrations for many years now and my phone still feels just as snappy and great as the day I bought it.

[LegitShady]

apple has an order of magnitude fewer device models to support. I'm not sure android will ever have similar performance and feature support as apple - the business models are so totally different.