Personally I would like to see Samsung get out of the app business and devote itself to manufacturing devices, appliances and accessories. As long as many of us are using android, there seems to be better integration amongst the varied Google apps which dominate the Android app market. Some Samsung apps offer better features but they may not integrate with apps we might be using from legitimate suppliers such as Google. And also by doing this, Samsung could stop pushing bloat Ware and reduce the amount of used storage on devices such as phones.
@PoorGuy The best way to take advantage of every feature of a Samsung device is by using a Samsung app. In house developers have the edge in app development by:
having access to internal APIs not accessible to outside developers.
having access directly to hardware developers to understand the capabilities and limitations of the hardware.
highlighting new features which may be unknown by outside developers.
Understand what you are saying. But there are so many apps that are more feature rich and more inclusive than Samsung apps, at least until Samsung developers catch up. Example is how Samsung is no longer pushing their Messages app and now utilizing Google Messages. On its own the Google phone app does a better job of identifying and blocking spam calls, similar results with GMAIL. With Google being so dominant across Android, I think the integration of apps would be served better.
@PoorGuy Sorry but Samsung Messages is really a very poor case for your argument. RCS is not a phone feature, it is a cellular messaging network feature. Carriers have been moving to Google's RCS back office equipment and Google has made strides in getting Apple to the table on RCS. This move to a unified RCS around Google services means that it is inevitable that Samsung messages won't be able to compete.
