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by gus_massa 218 days ago
Last month, my old phone decided to die, and I bought a Samsung. Hardware is fine so far, but software ...

Recent rant in a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740274

New rant:

As I said, the phone restarted itself to upgrade and disabled the notifications until I loged in again. I could have missed some important stuff, but I notice it before it caused a problem.

So I went to the configuration and disable automatic upgrades.

Now I get a notification that ask me to restart to upgrade, and say that if I accept it will be restarted automatically next time. (And it's very easy to press that button by mistake.)

And there is an annoying that each week tells me if I used the phone 5 minuthe more than the previous week, and is magical and impossible to turn off.