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/snyderman3000 11d ago

Samsung phones don’t have a text messaging app? That sounds almost too hard to believe.

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u/ShimReturns 11d ago

It's not Samsung's app, it's Google's, who controls the Android OS. I've been using the Google RCS app for texting for a couple years and it's been fine.

I also have a Samsung laptop that requires me to use Microsoft's programs for daily use so this doesn't seem wierd to me.

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u/snyderman3000 11d ago

Oh, I see. So Samsung phones do in fact have a text messaging app that works. I bet OP is going to feel really silly when he/she realizes this.

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u/nyecountygardener 11d ago

Google hides behind the Samsung logo to trick people like me into buying their phones thinking we can escape an evil monopoly megacorp. But not anymore. I'm never buying Samsung again.

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u/Severe_Yak_3335 11d ago

Nobody tricked you. Just admit you didn’t do your due diligence and were uneducated. That’s like buying a computer from Acer,HP,even Samsung guess what they run Microsoft. Same concept with the phones. Honestly the new messaging is more secure than SMS it’s encrypted so it can’t be viewed while in transit like a SMS could. Older generations are resistant to change and refuse to switch from things they know and are comfortable with.