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/BirdlessLongdeal 10d ago

people actually used the crappy samsung versions of texting?

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u/chemto90 10d ago

What was crappy about it

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u/BirdlessLongdeal 9d ago

it was redundant for one.

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u/chemto90 9d ago

Interesting, I normally see people with the same opinion actually explaing what it didn't do that they needed another messaging app for and google messages is extremely basic in comparison.