They can go f*ck themselves.

I stopped using Samsung products when they locked the bootloader with the One UI 8.5 update and before that I probably only skipped a couple of generations of Galaxy Note and Ultra phones.

I understand wanting to keep customers inside your ecosystem, but that should be done through convenience, not by holding hostage the hardware I already paid for.

All they really mean, but won't say, is that memory makes them more money than phones - so they no longer give a fuck about phones.

Samsung Mobile division is complaining here that memory is so expensive they can't afford to put a phone out at a set price for more than a few weeks without starting to lose money.

Samsung Memory division meanwhile: our profits are so obscene that we've raised the entire company profits 800% this year.

Its literally two divisions in the same damn office, their directors sit in the same boardroom - Samsung Electronics.

The reason for the reduction is, of course, the surging price of memory.

Maybe this will finally force lazy developers to optimise their programs a bit more. For decades we've had computers getting significantly faster every year so you didn't need to bother optimising your code for lower resources.

With more companies claiming this and prices going up, could we go back to not requiring everyone has a newish smartphone?

Perhaps they could try having just a handful of models. Having dozens can't be cheap.

The other thing they could try is not creating all the bloat ware.