I spend most of my time using an excellent iPhone 16 Pro Max, which means I have won most of my existence using the experience of iOS18 mastered iOS18. Sometimes, though, I use the same wonderful Samsung Galaxy S25 ultra, now running Android 15 and Vinai 7.
In many ways, the S25 ultra is equal to the iPhone. The platforms look and work in the same way. However, there is an important way in which they are different and, if you tell the truth, I am fed up with it.
As you may be familiar, unless you own a Google Pixel phone, you are unlikely to have a pure Android experience. Customize your skins for third -party partners, such as One Plus, Motorola, and Samsung, the platform.
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For some people, this is the beauty of Android: it can be many things for many people, and in the case of Samsung, it shows itself in the form of a van.
It is a beautiful platform that now offers things such as a deep integrated Samsung Galaxy AI, Samsung Health, and this time now short widgets, which offer information and chastity Aforism, such as “Day Roll continues.”
Duplication of attempt
Where the experience is low grand, though, copy. For each app where Google and Android have clearly covered you, think, images, contacts and chrome. Samsung is a duplicate of Vinai. Some, like the Internet and contacts, is easy to ignore.
Others, such as “gallery”, are less because they include the basic features of the Generative AI image editing. Some, such as the sketching image, which allows you to write on the picture so that the photos can be added to the elements like the flight of realistic birds or the dog sitting with you, if not full of utility. But the gallery compared to the powerful search capabilities of Google Photo. When I need to find an image, I will always go there.
Google also has a critical play store, but it doesn’t contain all Samsung apps you need – it will be a “Galaxy Store”.
I have learned to survive mostly in this copy, but the next day I ate a small stumbling block of duplicating dirt that experienced my patience.
In the hours before the industry event, I received an email on my iPhone that contains a link to add an invitation to my digital purse. I clicked on the link, thinking that it would open Apple’s wallet, but I was put into Google Log. Only then did I realize that the link belongs to the Google Wallet. Everyone’s purse app looks alike because there is really only one visual metaphor for the wallet: a stacked group of credit cards.
I picked up the Samsung Galaxy S25 ultra, opened the email, and chose the Google Wallet icon. Only when I was surprised to find that the Google Purse has not already been installed. I installed it and then signed in to my Google account.
Then I used the Global Google Search to find the wallet app on my S25 ultra, and I got three results:
- Samsung Purse
- Google Pay
- Google Value
Note how Samsung’s purse appears first. This is not an accident. You can open this link before paying any attention and then find useless for invitations or plane tickets they have just added.
On the iPhone, that will never happen. You get a utility app, though, if you choose, you can definitely add more. But it should be default: only cover platform apps, and not just align with your specific brand.
I know that Samsung wants to build an ecosystem, but as an individual of the Android family, it should be accepted that it will never own this ecosystem. The problem of this duplicate will always remain, unless Samsung tries to copy these apps and allow Google and Android to take wheels.
Nevertheless, are we buying the Samsung Galaxy phones for Vani apps or, ultimately, for a hardware experience, which includes cameras and things like a beautiful, near -nearest bezel -free screen?
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1+1 = very much
I know that Samsung is proud of his AI taste, but if you truth, I don’t think it can maintain the world’s open and Google. As it stands, the best bits of the Samsung Galaxy S28 Ultra AI experience Are From Google (Gemini).
For some people, my point of view is the opposite what they want. They like the choice, and the fact is that all Android phones are completely different or frustrated somehow make them happy. That is, pictures, internet, or purse apps on each platform, they think, an interesting plus.
Of course, you keep thinking. On the other hand, I will dream of updating Vinai, which is thin paper and connects all the basic and excellent bits of Android, while adding only features Google will not otherwise.
It is ironic that Samsung calls his platform “Vinai” when in fact, experience is a combination of two UIs living under a flagship roof. It is still crowded in one place, and I would like to get Samsung out of some duplicate tenants.
