Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died (www.engadget.com)
from some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 00:00
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31618399

Relevant HN discussion if anyone wants to see a discussion on a larger tech board for insights:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470699

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[deleted] on 26 Mar 00:52 next collapse

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Deceptichum@quokk.au on 26 Mar 01:14 next collapse

The best thing that can happen to a CEO.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 26 Mar 01:31 next collapse

Is this the parasite that bribed the president?

heavy@sh.itjust.works on 26 Mar 03:13 next collapse

I don’t have an opinion on the man personally, but I won’t buy a Samsung TV as they are ad riddled, terrible to use and are pretty fragile.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 26 Mar 05:22 next collapse

Phones are the same. Haven’t touched them since the S6.

My Samsung monitor (which was very expensive) also has hardware deficiencies, leading to broken images and flickering.

hoch@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 17:41 collapse

The phones are absolutely not the same, you just have a shitty carrier that installed extra stuff on your phone

Ulrich@feddit.org on 26 Mar 17:45 next collapse

Samsung is not a carrier.

hoch@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 19:06 collapse

That’s literally my point

Ulrich@feddit.org on 26 Mar 19:08 collapse

…what? Samsung is the one installing bloatware. The carrier may add their own but you can avoid that by simply not buying those locked models. You can’t avoid the Samsung bloatware.

hoch@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 19:14 collapse

I dunno, dawg. I’ve been buying unlocked Samsung phones for like 10 years and I’m not sure what kind of bloatware or ads you’re talking about

Ulrich@feddit.org on 26 Mar 19:18 collapse

So you have zero Samsung apps on any Samsung phones you’ve ever purchased? Lies.

hoch@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 19:29 collapse

What, are you talking about the calculator, camera, and note apps that come installed on the phone? That’s not bloatware, that’s like basic functionality 😂

Rajtinka@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 19:41 next collapse

I think they mean Bixby and OneUI and similar, but I have been using Google phones for a while so I could be very out of touch

Ulrich@feddit.org on 26 Mar 19:55 collapse

  • Samsung Internet
  • Samsung Health
  • Samsung Cloud
  • PENUP
  • Samsung Notes
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Samsung Keyboard
  • Samsung Email
  • Samsung Pay
  • Samsung Members
  • Samsung Galaxy Store
  • Samsung SmartThings
  • Samsung Health
  • Samsung Kids
  • Samsung Pay
  • Samsung Pass
  • Samsung Flow
  • Samsung Music
  • Samsung Bixby
  • Samsung Maps
  • Samsung Galaxy Wearable

You’re gonna sit there and tell me that none of this is on your phone?

It doesn’t matter if they’re “basic” or not. The point is I don’t want them, they’re not necessary, I cannot remove them, and I don’t find it acceptable that someone else gets to charge me hundreds of dollars and then turn around and control what software is allowed to be on my phone. If you’re fine with having bloatware on your phone, that’s fine, you can just say that. It’s ok.

oppy1984@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 19:37 next collapse

I bought my Samsung phone directly from Samsung and my carrier is a BYOB Mobile Virtual Network Operator. Before I ever connected my new phone to the carrier network it was riddled with bloatware that I can’t uninstall. Yes carriers are guilty of installing crap, but Samsung is just as guilty.

I’ve bought several Samsung phones over the years and this is the second factory direct phone I’ve received that was like this, they didn’t used to do this crap. Since this seems to be the norm now this will probably be the last Samsung I buy and when it’s time to replace I’ll just get a pixel and flash grapheneos on it, been curious about trying that anyway.

Hadriscus@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 19:41 collapse

I had a Samsung phone (A20E) which was by some margin the most terrible piece of technology I’ve ever used. Barely functional a couple weeks from buying. This is anecdotal, of course, but since those are mass-produced and supposedly identical from unit to unit…

czardestructo@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 01:55 next collapse

My 16 year old Samsung TV would like to argue otherwise! It’s a beast and 1080p is plenty good for me! But my Samsung kitchen? Holy crap it’s all so terrible…

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 14:39 collapse

You bought before all the SmartTV nonsense then. So did I, and my Samsung TV is still doing well. I bought it >10 years ago to watch the Olympics or something with my in-laws, and now it’s still trucking along just fine in my bedroom (eventually got a bigger LG for the main room). No issues whatsoever.

Petter1@lemm.ee on 27 Mar 11:39 next collapse

And their oversaturated, over sharpened pictures just look nasty to me.

whereisk@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 15:18 collapse

They have commercial tvs for kiosks, hotels, etc though a bit more expensive don’t have any of that junk.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Mar 03:30 next collapse

I sincerely hope he was a good man, and my heart goes out to his survivors, especially his daughter since he died at her wedding.

I know nothing about him, and probably won’t bother learning more.

Anyway, what does this have to do with technology? Does the other CEO have a very different plan for the company or something that this CEO was blocking? If not, this doesn’t seem all that important.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 26 Mar 05:22 next collapse

Does the other CEO have a very different plan for the company

I mean they almost certainly will…

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Mar 05:30 collapse

Why? They had two co-CEOs, and now one of them died. Is it really a given they’d change direction suddenly after the other passed? Surely they’re already a known quantity in the org…

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Mar 12:50 collapse

Anyway, what does this have to do with technology?

Samsung is one of the largest tech companies in the world. I don’t think that’s debatable.

Arkouda@lemmy.ca on 26 Mar 16:03 collapse

A spoon is technology, do you see posts about spoons here?

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Mar 16:53 next collapse

There is no spoon.

saimen@feddit.org on 26 Mar 17:26 next collapse

Be the spoon my friend

Hadriscus@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 19:39 collapse

The big one or the small one ? I’d rather be the small one tonight if you don’t mind

boonhet@lemm.ee on 27 Mar 10:10 collapse

And yet, my spoon is too big.

jasoman@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 13:59 collapse

I live in a Giant Bucket.

Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf on 26 Mar 20:17 next collapse

A spoon is a utensil and not technology in the context of this community. Samsung is all about technology. They’re huge.

Arkouda@lemmy.ca on 27 Mar 14:23 collapse

Whatever you say.

capybara@lemm.ee on 27 Mar 11:55 next collapse

Have there been any interesting newsworthy developments for spoons?

DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 14:51 collapse

www.medicalnewstoday.com/…/parkinsons-spoons#prod…

[deleted] on 27 Mar 16:34 next collapse

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capybara@lemm.ee on 27 Mar 16:37 collapse

Okay, an article from 2021 about a niche kind of spoons. If that is the best example of developments in the spoon industry I fully understand why it gets no attention on e.g. lemmy.

Nasan@sopuli.xyz on 27 Mar 22:28 collapse

More recent development in spoon engineering.

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 13:34 collapse

Alright, what spoon news do you have to share?

deathbird@mander.xyz on 26 Mar 05:20 collapse

Well I’m sure they’ll get another one.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 27 Mar 14:37 collapse

They had two already. Now the question is if they’ll hire a couple more to get back to three, or stick with one for a while.