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> Samsung and Android are big on the half baked gimmicks and lackluster supports. Those phones you have to upgrade after a few years as they become more bloated than a Windows 95 machine bought from CompUSA.

Am I missing something? What are the phones getting bloated with?

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My Galaxy S3 was bloated to hell from Samsung and AT&T. Samsung had half naked eye tracking gimmicks and AT&T would constantly be scanning for WiFi points to connect to draining my battery.

The only way to get out of it was to flash another rom. Samsung never really updated the device while I had it.

For some time the software updates I received on my Note made it worse and worse. It’s like each major update was loaded with crap to run on the new hardware, making the experience terrible for the legacy phones.

Apple got sued and settle for the very thing you are describing https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphones-settlement/...

IIRC wasn't Apple throttling the CPU because of battery degradation and to prevent sudden shutoffs even when it showed >25% battery? In my opinion, they should've said what they were doing, and made it clear that replacing the battery would fix the issue, but I'd rather have the battery status be accurate versus an always fast phone that shuts off randomly.

No.

I distinctly remember my Galaxy S4 or something introducing the "innovative" feature of waving your hand in front of the front camera to scroll web pages.

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