alt Hacker News> This is why it never has been and will never be considered a premium android phone.
You are entitled to your opinion, but the S series is objectively considered a premium android phone by basically everyone. By your standard, the only possible contender is Google’s Pixel lineup, but I get the feeling you might consider Google’s forced 1st party apps as intrusive too.
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kube-system • yesterday at 9:28 PM
gApps and its stipulations are forced on all downstream android partners too. That's just part of how the capital-A Android ecosystem works. Generally google's apps are decent though and people refer to their minimal distribution as being "not bloatware".
>the S series is objectively considered a premium android phone by basically everyone
Not by anyone I know
>I get the feeling you might consider Google’s forced 1st party apps as intrusive too.
You'd be incorrect