And their less affordable phones are now less affordable too.

same same. All my homies hate locked bootloaders

That's fine.

I stopped buying Samsung after the S4... Yea, that long ago... Because you picks locked down the boot loader.

FU Samsung.

while ignoring samsungs own dangerous OEm parts, no doubt.

The Note 7 explosions were so prolific we used to joke at work that the model had a "Grenade Mode" feature.

The fuck is this puff peice garbage? You're just as (if not more) likely to get burned by a genuine Samsung battery. Hell, the entire Note 7 line was banned from being taken on airplanes.

I honestly am wondering about like who believes all the BS claims from all the different companies.. Not even just this case, which is so so so clearly just BS excuse so people can't fix/get their phones fixed and need to just buy a new one. But recently here a grocery store escorted out a young mother who brestfed her newborn at the kiddie toy section, and then the store manager said that they're gonna make a dedicated breastfeeding area in their store, with even a single chair and so on.. Like who the fuck believes these? Why is it so ok to spew out whatever lies, and then it's all just okay and people move on? No follow-ups, nothing?

"Safety issue" kek

Suck my balls, Samsung, and take that bullshit anti repair stance to hell

"Dangerous" "Fake" i.e. less expensive aftermarket.

Well, that's certainly one possibility, but there are so many average people that simply don't even know. You could mention their data or try to talk about privacy or safety with it and they would neither care, nor be interested, and in some cases not even comprehend it or why it matters.

Was just at a local area on some bleachers and a row below me was a woman on her phone watching AI slop videos one after another. Her entire feed was only AI slop videos for 45 minutes. That's the kind of person I'm thinking of. The ones that unilaterally pay no attention, for whatever reason, to any aspect of data privacy/sovereignty/anonymity/safety/"insert aspect here".

People on Lemmy aren't likely to have just stumbled in here. We are probably all aware of these issues on some level. But average people like that woman I mentioned are the ones most at risk of being taken advantage of. We need extremely strong data and privacy regulation, and needed it years ago.

Lol sorry, didn't mean to soapbox. Just have a lot of strong opinions on this and am tired of seeing people, naive or not, being taken advantage of.

Do you know what? I trust Apple with my data (for better or for worse, or at least I used to).

I can see how someone might be just as delusioned as I am but they trust Samsung instead.

Average person that doesn't care what data a company has or what it does with it

I doubt they're really being truthful about that. But it would be nice, right?

I'd consider this an absolute win.

Who is letting Samsung have access to their health data?

Still believing in Santa ? Samsung is full of malware from israel

It turns it off.

See: CCPA

And guess what turning that off does?

AFAIK it's just a toggle in the settings. It says, "consent to the use of health data for Ai training and modeling" and you just click to turn it off.

Is that a threat? Or a promise?

Thanks for saving everyone a click. There's really nothing in Android phones from the last 5 years that would stop them from hijacking AirDrop, since the EU mandated that Apple had to use open protocols for it, which allowed the hijack in the first place. The fact that Samsung and other OEMs are greedily blocking the features behind purchasing additional hardware (i.e. another phone) echoes the greed of keeping AirDrop exclusive to iPhones in the first place. And it should highlight the need for a universal drop that works regardless of what phone platform you have.

Worth noting that since Apple took the "always on all the time" option, AirDropping hasn't been as fun as it once was. You could go to any populated area and be dropped all kinds of crazy stuff just for being there. Android never really had that, and now with everyone having to turn it on every 10 minutes, we don't have it either on the iPhone side.

Missing AirDrop compatibility

Do they make an S10e where the back doesn't fall off? I might be interested 😆

Probably less bloat/spyware tbh.