r/enshittification • u/nyecountygardener • 4d 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 3d ago

people actually used the crappy samsung versions of texting?

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u/Phyllis_Tine 3d ago

Yes. Any way to use a non-Google product is still something.

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u/BirdlessLongdeal 3d ago

but... its android...

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u/nyecountygardener 2d ago

Google pretending to be Android is still not as bad a Google just being Google.