About ten years ago I had my first smartphone, a Samsung. Over the span of a year the pre-installed apps got so bloated that I could only have one or two custom apps installed. There was an SD card slot and I tried to offload the apps to an SD card. Very normal and standard thing to do at the time. Except it didn’t work because Samsung had disabled symlink support in the apps directory. No good reason for them to do that, except to make the phone less useful to its owner. Haven’t bought anything from Samsung since them.
About ten years ago I had my first smartphone, a Samsung. Over the span of a year the pre-installed apps got so bloated that I could only have one or two custom apps installed. There was an SD card slot and I tried to offload the apps to an SD card. Very normal and standard thing to do at the time. Except it didn’t work because Samsung had disabled symlink support in the apps directory. No good reason for them to do that, except to make the phone less useful to its owner. Haven’t bought anything from Samsung since them.
I’ve always been secretly jealous of Samsung hardware, then I remember how terrible their software is and buy the newest Pixel.