This just reaffirms my impression of Samsung as a decent hardware company and a poor software company.
I was thrilled to switch from my Samsung Galaxy S3 to my Nexus 4. The S3 had horrible Samsung-equivalent apps for everything: email, chat, a browser, and a lot of system services that I couldn't uninstall. It also had some specially built update mechanism, separate from Google Play, that would drain my battery, until it was fixed.
I like Samsung though, as long as they stick to producing hardware. My ARM Chromebook is a lovely device: Samsung hardware with Google software on it.
I was thrilled to switch from my Samsung Galaxy S3 to my Nexus 4. The S3 had horrible Samsung-equivalent apps for everything: email, chat, a browser, and a lot of system services that I couldn't uninstall. It also had some specially built update mechanism, separate from Google Play, that would drain my battery, until it was fixed.
I like Samsung though, as long as they stick to producing hardware. My ARM Chromebook is a lovely device: Samsung hardware with Google software on it.