<story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>Their high-end phones have such dark patterns that I will flat-out not buy Samsung anything.&lt;p&gt;Even if you pay [€$]1000+ for one of their Smart Phones, you can look forward to:&lt;p&gt;* Uninstallable cruft, as if they were a telcom and you were on a contract and had not just handed over a grand&lt;p&gt;* ...like a confusingly-similar-looking competitor to Google Contacts that will upload your info to their servers&lt;p&gt;* GDPR? LOL&lt;p&gt;* A hard button on the side of your phone located just below the &amp;quot;volume down&amp;quot; button,  easy to press accidentally, that is hard-coded and unconfigurable, that will launch their AI assistant Bixby. Don&amp;#x27;t want to use Bixby? Tough shit. Nothing you can do about it.&lt;p&gt;* Constant badgering by the phone&amp;#x27;s native notification to sign up for &amp;quot;Samsung Members&amp;quot;, a social media platform. No, you can&amp;#x27;t turn that off.&lt;p&gt;* Other, similar bullshit.&lt;p&gt;3nm? These are such sketchy practices I cannot imagine it won&amp;#x27;t affect, say, their high-end TVs (they would totally monitor your house and show you advertisements).&lt;p&gt;Seriously, avoid that company. No, paying for their high-end options will not insulate you from their nonsense.</text></item><item><author>1-6</author><text>Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I&amp;#x27;m fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it&amp;#x27;s nothing new).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarkraft</author><text>In a world of garbage electronics they’re actually a name I trust on some level. They build pretty decent stuf- with stupid caveats.&lt;p&gt;My Galaxy Buds Plus are pretty good and have unparalleled battery life - but you can’t use the companion app on Android because it won’t work unless you give it access to your contacts.&lt;p&gt;My Samsung TV is quite snappy and, besides my model being a special edition that doesn’t come with Bluetooth and them not specifying it anywhere, it’s actually pretty alright. Cold-boots quickly, has a snappy UI, theoretically comes with all the smart features you want ... but it’s full of ads the moment you enable internet access, plus you know the spying allegations. I guess I’ll still have to figure out proper firewall rules.&lt;p&gt;I’m going to guess that their other appliances are similar. Pretty good hardware, pretty good software underpinnings, just severely held back by some anti-consumer software decisions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>Their high-end phones have such dark patterns that I will flat-out not buy Samsung anything.&lt;p&gt;Even if you pay [€$]1000+ for one of their Smart Phones, you can look forward to:&lt;p&gt;* Uninstallable cruft, as if they were a telcom and you were on a contract and had not just handed over a grand&lt;p&gt;* ...like a confusingly-similar-looking competitor to Google Contacts that will upload your info to their servers&lt;p&gt;* GDPR? LOL&lt;p&gt;* A hard button on the side of your phone located just below the &amp;quot;volume down&amp;quot; button,  easy to press accidentally, that is hard-coded and unconfigurable, that will launch their AI assistant Bixby. Don&amp;#x27;t want to use Bixby? Tough shit. Nothing you can do about it.&lt;p&gt;* Constant badgering by the phone&amp;#x27;s native notification to sign up for &amp;quot;Samsung Members&amp;quot;, a social media platform. No, you can&amp;#x27;t turn that off.&lt;p&gt;* Other, similar bullshit.&lt;p&gt;3nm? These are such sketchy practices I cannot imagine it won&amp;#x27;t affect, say, their high-end TVs (they would totally monitor your house and show you advertisements).&lt;p&gt;Seriously, avoid that company. No, paying for their high-end options will not insulate you from their nonsense.</text></item><item><author>1-6</author><text>Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I&amp;#x27;m fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it&amp;#x27;s nothing new).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orangepanda</author><text>&amp;gt; * Constant badgering by the phone&amp;#x27;s native notification to sign up for &amp;quot;Samsung Members&amp;quot;, a social media platform. No, you can&amp;#x27;t turn that off.&lt;p&gt;Apple does something similar. Every now and then I get a notification about &amp;quot;try tv+&amp;#x2F;arcade&amp;#x2F;music for x months&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Or few years back when wallet was launched, daily notifications to add my card.. in a country that doesnt support apple wallet.</text></comment>