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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Why do I despice 2nd party devices like samsung phones

 iPhones are a 1st party device because the hardware is from them, operating system aka software is from them. There is only one version of the hardware and software unlike android where google is the 1st party device maker with its google pixels and samsung are the 2nd party devices where they too make android phones but the hardware on these phones and software (Adroid) is way too different and most of the times do not work as intented. Unfortunately these 2nd party companies like nothing, samsung and others add their own customization, spin, apps, bloatware etc., which doesnt give a consistant experience on all these devices. The worst part is, if you are a developer, if you develop an app for iphone or apple eco system, it will certainly work on all apple devices with seemless integration, migration across all apple devices.
Android developers including google itself cannot develop an app of their own which works as intented across all of their android phones let alone work on all android devices. Ex: google youtube. Google's youtube is one of the most streamed app on the internet with most video content served. The app on all apple devices works always as intented and also on their own google pixel phone but it doesnt work well on their own 2nd party android devices like samsung. If you check the internet, samsung's forums have users complaining about this app. Youtube premium is a paid feature which gives so many beneficial features and one of them is background play. I can listen to some videos in the background while using another app or with the mobile screen off, samsung users can no longer use this feature. If you turn off the screen, the youtube stops, you can only run it in the foreground as minimised but not in the background like a music app. Strangely other music apps like youtube music, spotify, prime music and others work in the background. It seems if you want stability, reliability, consistency you move to apple. If you want shiny new things, too many options then you go not for others.

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