MrWrock t1_j8t1om4 wrote
Reply to comment by Nytonial in Apple Exploring Viability of Foldable Devices With Touch-Sensitive Chassis. by SUPRVLLAN
Funny they are considered the worst manufacturer, don't they make the screens used in iPhones and many android phones as well?
Nytonial t1_j8t2nsl wrote
Oh, hardware wise Samsung make some of the best electronics (screens, cameras, processors and flash storage), white goods(fridges and washers), tanks you name it...
But they are super restrictive on their own assembled phones, forcing you to install bloatwear (over 50gb on the s22 is unremovable apps/system. It's 4GB on the pixel series) and they do all in their power to prevent repair.
PeteZaPower t1_j8tc0ci wrote
I disagree about the appliances. We bought everything Samsung, fridge, dishwasher, oven, washer, dryer. We have had major problems with each of them and they are only a few years old. Never again
elMurpherino t1_j8u3mos wrote
My Samsung fridge had problems almost immediately. I explained it further but replied to the person who replied to your comment and I’m lazy and don’t feel like copying it again.
Nytonial t1_j8tc9km wrote
Fair, my parents have a Samsung fridge/ice maker that's still going after 10 years and never repaired to my knowledge
elMurpherino t1_j8u3hxd wrote
Mine is shit. Ice machine never worked properly and we had to fucking defrost it three times a year bc Samsung refused to issue recalls on the one I have. But the techs that came out and the internet said they didn’t design the defrosting portion properly and nothing the techs are allowed to do will ever fix it. We fuckin modded it based on a YouTube video lol, which helped but still have to defrost it twice a year. At least for me personally I will never buy another Samsung appliance based on this experience alone.
Nytonial t1_j8u3rh9 wrote
Damn, guess I'm alone in this one then with the golden fridge/freezer 😅
Never had an SSD fail either
elMurpherino t1_j8u4e1m wrote
Lol consider yourself lucky. It may just be certain models but I don’t care to find out. Ours is a French door style with freezer on the bottom and water ice on the outside of the left door.
Edit: to add I’d have no problem buying Samsung ssds. Those are good in my book. Just Samsung tvs and appliances I have sworn off lol
TouchofRed t1_j8tfkbp wrote
While most of what you said is true. That 50GB on the S22 is the difference between GiB and GB. Samsung counts this difference between GB and GiB as part of the storage used by the system. labeling these conversion losses under 'system' is a strange practice and causes confusion.
For example, a device advertised with 512 GB of storage actually has closer to 476 GB (GiB) of usable space. Likewise, a 128 GB model has approximately 119 GB of storage, with 256 GB yielding 238 GB of space.
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CheckMateFluff t1_j8t4z8r wrote
I find Samsung is harder to repair because of its complexity while apple is hard to repair because of artificial stop gates.
Nytonial t1_j8t5nkq wrote
They've recently started serialising their cameras, storage and batteries so at this stage, with apples (very not perfect btw) repair program it looks like it may actually switch round in the near future 😬😬😬 with apple being repair friendly and Samsung becoming purely disposable tech.
CheckMateFluff t1_j8tmi2c wrote
Apple is never going to be repair-friendly by itself, it hurts device sales and shareholders' bottom line. and Samsung is going to get slapped with the same thing as Apple with its anti-consumer practices.
In best case scenario both are forced to be repair friendly
In the worst-case scenario, Apple shakes the repair law and Samsung follows suit.
mcraw506 t1_j8xyq1i wrote
You should see the repair process on the S23’s. All I can say is good luck to anyone trying to repair it on their own
Ryfhoff t1_j8v201f wrote
Prevent repair ? That’s simply not true. I run a shop on the side. Apple is the one who tries to prevent repairs in more than one way. Samsungs are actually the easiest to work on, all the same size screws, mostly modular and no encrypted / paired hardware to the phone. There may be like one exception where they tried some shit.
Nytonial t1_j8v2v2w wrote
I'm quite sure the camera at least is paired in the s22, and I thought it was more. Maybe they got pushback and are behaving?
Most repair parts on their store page are permanently out of stock
They are also petitioning the government to ban all oled screen imports except direct from themselves, which will stop most sources for screen repairs
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MrWrock t1_j8t7av6 wrote
Oh, interesting. Any idea if they share anything other than a name?
Headytexel t1_j8tqt8b wrote
After looking deeper into it, I was actually incorrect. I assumed both companies were independent companies under the Samsung chaebol, but SD is actually owned by SE.
skalpelis t1_j8w2t4n wrote
Samsung Mobile and Samsung Electronics (or whatever their names are) are technically different companies under the same chaebol.
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