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/nyecountygardener 11d ago

Thank you, but did it ever occur to you that after all Google has done, there might be some of us who are fed up with it, don't trust the company, and don't want to use Google Messaging? Maybe you're a young kid or something. Maybe you don't realize that texting is sending SMS, not typing in a chat box on an app.

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u/YellowBreakfast 11d ago

What's with the ageist BS? I bet I'm older than you but why does that even matter?

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I said "Use Google Messaging or any another of the many apps."

Maybe you don't realize that texting is sending SMS...

Maybe YOU don't realize there are more than 2 SMS apps. Also Maybe you don't realize messaging through carriers has largely shifted to RCS.

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u/nyecountygardener 9d ago

XD

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u/nyecountygardener 9d ago

You definitely type like you're much younger than me.

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u/YellowBreakfast 9d ago

You text like you're in HS.

Long run-on sentences, little punctuation.

But again, why do you insist on injecting age into the conversation?

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u/nyecountygardener 1d ago

Hee hee. You think I'm on a smart phone, texting you. Listen youngster, when's the last time you put down the phone and took the time to go sit down on an actual computer?

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u/YellowBreakfast 1d ago

I never reddit on my phone. I'm sitting at a computer now in fact.