So T-Mobile shipped my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 pre-order out a couple weeks early. While configuring and playing around with what is the best phone I’ve ever owned, I was struck by one of the main differences between buying a Samsung phone vs. what I observe when people buy an iPhone.
My wife has always owned iPhones, for example. She has never had the experience, to my knowledge, of paying almost $1,000 for a phone and then needing to do the following:
- Go to Google and search for “how do I disable Bixby.”
- Go to the Google Play store and find the BK Package Disabler(Samsung).
- Pay $2.49 for said package disabler.
- After authorizing the package disabler, use it to disable all Bixby services.
My wife and other iPhone users don’t do this for, say, Siri because in large measure they simply want to use their phones to accomplish whatever it is they want to accomplish, and they don’t mind Apple constraining their choices.
This is why I have never used iPhones. If I were the sort of person who wanted a damn button that I had no control over which launched an annoying voice command system, I wouldn’t buy Android phones.