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Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's (news.samsung.com)
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Samsung announced on Monday evening that it will host a livestreamed Galaxy Unpacked event on September 4, strategically positioning itself just five days ahead of Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 17 event on September 9.

The virtual event, scheduled for 5:30 a.m. ET (2:30 a.m. PT), will stream live on Samsung.com and the company's YouTube channel, according to an official Samsung announcement. The timing appears deliberate, as Samsung seeks to capture attention before Apple's traditional fall product launch window

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's obvious how you haven't even touched a Samsung phone in the past 10 years and are just repeating misinformation. Carrier phones with preinstalled bloatware is a thing, but Samsung mostly did it in the heyday if Facebook and Twitter integration with data plans in the US circa 2015. Newer phones and international versions have never had preinstalled social media apps, let alone installed at system level. This was a widespread issue at the time with all phones, from Motorola to ASUS, and yes, even Apple. Not a Samsung exclusive issue.

Currently, even Samsung applications can be uninstalled. There's ads, on the Galaxy store, where you are supposed to have ads. They are no more intrusive than looking at recommended apps on the Play store or the AppStore.

There's one bit of dark pattern left, and it is after major upgrades, Samsung will show a notification suggesting to install recommended apps. But you can touch "don't show this again" and it goes away forever. I've never seen an ad on my s24 phone ever.

So, my suggestion is to not blindly trust everything you hear on the internet. No matter how geeky and knowledgeable the people may seem. Just find variety and diversity of POVs to form a more complex and nuanced opinion, even seek personal experience. Not just stay with a single person's biased opinion. And definitely don't parrot loudly something that you have no first hand experience with.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

On my Samsung, all the Samsung apps are not uninstallable, they can only be disabled in settings but not uninstalled.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Your right, I have not touched a Samsung phone and the only person I know with one lives in a different country.

I’m only repeating what I’ve heard from multiple places, I’ve never heard the opposite. Didn’t the most recent release come with tons of preinstalled apps taking up a decent percentage of of the hard drive?

If that’s not true, it makes the news and that’s what iPhone users see and believe. There is not really news to the contrary.