That’s what happens when you let big business buy your government. Laws get enacted or ignored to favor price fixing and anti consumer practices. I was amazed our government had the wisdom to stop the AT&T acquisition of T-mobile. Now we see the benefits of this, but this wisdom is rare.
The problem is in the language and the ignorance of the details. Everyone says “we came from apes” or the anti evolution folks say “we didn’t come from apes”, etc. This is all wrong. NO we did NOT come from apes. That doesn’t even make sense, the language is terrible in its laziness to explain it and thus creates confusion and doubt. You can’t sum it up like that, in this case a summary statement is simply false. We did not come from apes. The true statement is “we share DNA and a biological ancestry with the same species that modern day apes share, where at some point millions of years ago that species split into branches of new species that included the lineages that give us modern apes as well as extinct Neanderthals and of course us.” We didn’t come from apes, we share an ancient biological species with apes and were related millions of years ago." Over simplifying it into “we came from apes” is what feeds the argument of ignorance because technically they are right, we didn’t. We and apes both came from something else and our path yielded great intelligence and upright walking.
Yeah, but it will only take Samsung more time to push updates out because they’ve so overcomplicated the software cluttering up core Android, more work to update when you add more hooked in features. The further away your version of Android is from the base vanilla from Google, the longer it will take the OEM to push out an update once the next dessert comes out from Google, in general. Right there is a very good reason NOT to throw every possible and gimmicky feature into the phone. Everyone here seems to have forgotten this point. Samsung is moving in the wrong direction with every new phone, further and further from stock Android, which is already fantastic. Just wish the Nexus 4 had a better camera and it would be the perfect phone.
All those useless features do require extra user effort. You need to play with more option, try them out, turn them on or off, etc. That’s great for a lot of people whol want to tinker, so there’s no problem here. But this reviewer is part of the other crowd that would prefer the creators to think through the way the device is used and limit all those options to what they feel makes the most sense and offers the best possible experience as close to out of the box as possible. Apple takes that to the extreme, and Samsung goes the kitchen sink opposite extreme. Nothing wrong with either method, it’s just consumer choice, buy what you like. But this is a review by a human who has an opinion on that one way or another and shouldn’t be dismissed. And of course all those extra features do come with some cost, don’t dismiss that either. Piling up all that stuff will only make it more work and take longer for Samsung to update the OS when Google releases the next dessert. That right there is the best reason to avoid too much gimmicky nonsense piled on top of wonderful Jelly Bean.
