South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung said on Friday it will offer a software update for their Galaxy S22 phone “as soon as possible” to address settlers’ complaints about a preinstalled app – junkware – limiting the performance of the outfit’s latest pretend iPhone.
The issue stems from the Game Optimising Service (GOS) app on the phones, which automatically limits the performance of devices when it detects a gaming app is in operation.
The South Korean tech giant said it plans to add an option in its game launcher app to allow users to prioritise performance through the software update.
Samsung previously explained that the GOS app was put on devices to prevent them from overheating and losing battery too quickly during gaming for consumer safety.
MacDailyNews Take: Beleaguered Samsung has a history of shipping exploding devices that burn down people homes and set their vehicles afire.
Since sales began for the Galaxy S22 series, numerous complaints have been posted across Samsung’s community forums for South Korean consumers and user community pages.
Samsung is once again in hot water over how it treats benchmark apps. This time, the company is accused of throttling 10,000 Android apps—but not benchmark apps. It sounds like the scheme OnePlus was caught running last year. Instead of boosting the SoC speeds when a benchmark app is running, Android OEMs are now turning down phone performance any time a benchmark app isn’t running. It’s like benchmark cheating but in reverse.
John Poole, the lead developer of Geekbench, was able to reproduce the wild performance changes based on whether the S22 thought it was running a benchmark or a game. Poole changed Geekbench’s package name to that of Genshin Impact, a popular game, and saw benchmark scores plummet. The Snapdragon Galaxy S22 dropped its single-core score 46 percent, while the multi-core score was down 35 percent. Poole confirmed that this behavior exists on the Exynos S10 as well.
MacDailyNews Take: May those who settle for poor imitations, shoddy knockoffs, and inferior wannabes someday be struck by the bright idea to get a real iPhone.
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If I wanted an iPhone I would have gotten an iPhone, now pray tell, how do I uninstall Safari from my iPad? How can I sideload?
You should disregard this story. It’s win for Apple if you stay on Android.
Goes to show the logic of criticizing unremovable software, when you have unremovable software yourself.
Oh, I’m sorry. Logic! It’s over your head.
Not interested in Apple’s win, or Google’s, only the user’s, as in me.
You should be banned, Mr AppleBS, from owning Apple gear. You’re too stewwwwpid to understand it’s benefits and you purposefully want to undo all the things that make Apple an Apple. How about you just fskc off permanently and buy an Oppo?
And here I thought that all I needed was money. I guess an oath of conformity is required as well. What a clown!
Yes you are Bozo.
AppleBozoSnark is definitely a bozo clown. He loves being a doofus. He is ApleCynic and ShokeeperX in steroids – dumb as dumb can be. If you want to what dumb is, just look for AppleBS. The clue is in his name.
Mr AppleBS, people buy iPhones because they want Safari and they want the protection of not being able to side load. The fact you don’t understand this is amazing and shows that, like your name, you truly are full of the stinkiest, lumpiest, most disgusting infectious, brown and steaming BS, and sadly, it’s not pouring out of your McManus, but it’s all in your head.
If you want to uninstall your browser and side load, then get a Samsung. Otherwise, please fskc off, permanently.
How do we install GoS into AppleBS’s brain? He needs a limiter.
So then it’s okay if you can’t uninstall Samsung bloatware? Pick a lane!
I’m a customer of both and a fan of neither, but less so a fan of Apple’s.
I will buy what I like, thank you very much. I’m a customer of both and a fan of neither, but definitely an Apple nemesis more than a Samsung one. Apple needs nemeses more, and deserves them.
The only nemesis you have is you. You are anti yourself. If there is an equivalent of Vladimir Putin in this forum, it is AppleBS. He really is dumb – the clue is in his name.
The only authoritarian in the Apple sphere is Apple.
But authoritarians always lose in the long term.
Trump will be indicted, and Apple will be forced to stop blocking 3rd part stores and repair shops.
Putin? You’re an imbecile.
I’m an admitted Apple Sheep. To start, I have a 13 Pro, iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, Apple Watch S7 Hermes, AirPods Pro, nine HomePod OGs, seven HomePod Minis, eight AppleTVs. My wife and kids have all Apple products too.
That said, Apple Software has been nothing short of a heaping warm pile of donkey dung for the past few years. AirPlay, Find My, Default audio to HomePods, HomeKit, Siri, etc… I can go on about how bad it is but I’d run out out of internet trying to type it all up. Apple does nothing to address any bugs unless reported by the mainstream tech media. No, it doesn’t just work. It only works at giving me heartburn and a headache.
Please stop buying Apple products. Go and enjoy the heartache and heartburn of Windows and Android.
Well, that’s pathetic. Hardware design so bad that it needs to throttle performance of everything, except benchmarking apps (to fool reviewers). And the fakery is done in such an obvious way, the benchmarking app names are hard-coded into the OS. IF app name = benchmarking app, the GO FULL SPEED. Otherwise 🐌