[Samsung Galaxy A70 Guides, News, & Discussion] unh1nged:
The man has spoken my mind. I am at the same point with Samsung, and even Google. You can't talk to humans on chat support at Google, they are all bots, and even lie to you and tell you they are human. I always end up just asking logic questions that a bot couldn't answer but a human could, just to be sure, and each time it fails miserably. Although a couple of the tests I gave were programmed to respond to by the very next time, however my issues still went ignore even though the programmer must have read the messages to know to alter the coding, and my issues werent addressed at all because the bot couldnt comprehend that I had already accomplished what it was asking me to do before I even called, or that the screenshots I sent proved something it told me I couldn't prove, but it couldnt even tell me anything about the screenshots even though it kept telling me it had reviewed them. Anyways, thats all Google who I am still planning on dealing with in a way that will get them to contact me...

For Samsung: Omnia II, SGS1, S3, Note 3, Note Edge, S8+ and now Note 9 - and my next phone will not be a Samsung because of their cramming bootloader locks and pushed frp re-locks out to phones. If I am willing to void my warranty, and I have already paid $1200 for my phone, if I want to smash it against the wall, that's my right as an owner of the item. If I want to root it, that's my choice. Samsung has had support from rooters and mods and devs through not only people making their phone ore personal and useful, but also dedicated as it was an environment that was familiar and offered quality tech... Apple who has always locked down everything has slowly freed up customization of its phones realizing the value in giving people freedom and choice that they deserve to have. AMD easy to overclock = sales go up. Intel sales go down so Intel unlocks its processors and now doesn't even attempt to restrict in such a way = sales back up. Intel and AMD rivalry has not been hindered by wasting so much time on R&D to lock down the usefulness of their tech because they understand, tinkerers, modifiers, tweakers, hackers, cusomizers, etc means better business and innovations developed through the open forum and exchange of information. Samsung has gotten way too self important and stingy with its tech, which doesnt even rule the field anymore. They are losing ground to phones that have allowed rooting and the like, yet they are too busy snatching at all the singles that are still meagerly falling from the sky, that they don't realize all the people that were throwing those dollars into the air for them, have exited the building and are now exploring ALL the other options that have innovated and focused on customer wants and needs, and have developed a competetive and even better group of products. Sure Samsung has money to create innovation and to market and pay off people and pay for things to compensate and compete for a bit, but it'll eventually hit a point of NO RETURN(s), when it notices the competitions very familiar happy customers with their shiny new phones, sans Samsung, who have every intention of NOt RETURNing. (I'll be the one with the Note 9 pieces still stuck to the bottom of my red Fila's.)