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by TonyTrapp 1540 days ago
For what it's worth, even outside Android their software is horrible. Check out Samsung Magician, their SSD tool [0]. That UI just doesn't make any sense. Samsung is a hardware company (and they're great at that), can't remember any good software from them, ever.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/lbqdn8i.png
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nebula8804 1540 days ago
Seeing as how their Washing Machines self destruct, I don't think they may be that good at hardware either. Yeah its been a few years since we heard them in the news but I am hearing through the grapevine that they products still are poor quality(at least the appliances).

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ddIfgarPg

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bee_rider 1540 days ago
The tool works well enough, though.

They seem to be really bad at user experience stuff specifically.

In their defense, this is exactly how most engineers would run a company I think, haha. The only problem is that they are in literally every segment, including ones where usability is really important.

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rejectfinite 1540 days ago
That looks like the old interface.

Here it is on my machine, latest version

https://i.imgur.com/dg9JOr2.png

Not saying this is better :D

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TonyTrapp 1540 days ago
It's a screenshot from three years ago or so, it was just so bad that I had to keep it. And yeah, can't say that the new interface is an improvement. ;)
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