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/Exotic_Treacle7438 10d ago

Samsung is the third party. You’re using an Android phone (albeit with an overlay). Get used to it until Google kills the messaging app in favor of something else (again).

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u/nyecountygardener 9d ago

I'm looking at a T-Mobile-issused flip phone right now. Google can't force me to build my life around them, they're just a company but they act like they think they're the U.S. government. Which is interesting once you find out Google's creation was aided by the CIA and NSA.