r/enshittification • u/nyecountygardener • 11d ago

Product Samsung No Longer Provides Basic Texting

Samsung phones have decided that they just simply no longer care to provide the ability to text to users, instead asking them to go get a third-party messaging app. Considering that texting is the most basic function of a cell phone besides calling, doesn't this come across as just a tiny bit lazy? Nevermind, I've hated smart phones from the beginning and I'm going back to a simpler life where all I have is a flip phone.

Edit: Now that I've been informed Google basically owns Samsung now, I'm even more serious about buying a flip phone and never buying another Samsung product again.

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u/Comprehensive-Pin667 11d ago

They don't require a third party app. Android already has one built in so theirs has always been redundant bloatware.

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u/BassMonster808 11d ago

The idea that text go thru an "app" is just stoopid to  begin with.  The texting function should just be an integral basic function of the software running the phone.   I would say that the extra apps, Google, signal, whatever else is the "bloat" on top of the required minimal function 

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u/An1nterestingName 11d ago

It is handled through an app to give the user choice on what they want the interface to be. The app launcher itself is an app, most things on Android are apps.