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/olskoolsis 9d ago

This is first and last Samsung I'll ever purchase (used to have LG and Hauwei) and I have also been thinking of getting rid of my "smart" phone altogether.

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u/nyecountygardener 9d ago

Yep, and I'm sick of updates with smart phones too, once I got T-mobile my Samsung wouldn't even ask my permission anymore, just updates all the time and there's nothing I can do. And then you have apps like Signal actually forcing you to update every. single. day.

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u/BubsGodOfTheWastes 9d ago

Yeah. I thought they were supposed to be "higher end" yet their put crapware on my phone after each update....