Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung’s profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.
or, for that matter, to put any effort at all into software
This makes no sense. Samsung are basically the biggest innovators in mobile software. Every big feature that google eventually adds to Android was in Samsung phones 5 years ago.
Please go and use that Samsung software. Then you might want to reevaluate your statement. They are notorious for delivering good hardware with half baked software.
Just google “Samsung good hardware bad software” or something like that. You will get a significant number of results. For me, the number one annoyance was when the blueborne vulnerability was discovered and their only advice was to turn off bluetooth. Months passed before they patched it, and that was when they lost me.