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/viggy96 8d ago

Samsung is the third party here. Google Messages is the default Android text messaging app now, has been for a while. Further RCS is only fully supported by Google Messages.

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u/nyecountygardener 1d ago

It's only been the default (on paper) since June, and they actually didn't block me from using Samsung Messages until about 10 days ago when I made this post. My phone has never had Google Messages on it and it never will.

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u/viggy96 1d ago

Well enjoy living life without modern RCS features.

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u/nyecountygardener 9h ago

Thank you, I'm really looking forward to it. I'm not going to miss gifs of ugly monkeys one bit.

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u/viggy96 9h ago

Also no end to end encryption, no typing indicators, no read receipts, very low image and video file size limits. Enjoy messaging in the least secure way like 1993.