[PLUG-TALK] New phone is a PITA

[Chris Schafer]

Yeah I mean you bought a Samsung and supported this situation.  There are a
number of providers that don't behave this way.  The major players are all
this way.  You didn't have to hand them your $1K.  Android isn't this way
by default.  Though it is questionable in many ways.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 5:37 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 31 May 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> > IMO Android is history. It has been laced with the desires of carriers
> and
> > phone manufacturers which can not easily be deleted. It may not be
> > salvageable.
>
> John,
>
> Nokia sells phones with unmodified Android; the 6.1 (2018) is one; it's
> likely that newer versions also run plain Google Android. Perhaps there are
> other manufacturers who offer the unmodified OS.
>
> Rich
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