While you’re unlikely to be asking Bixby whether you’ll need to take an umbrella today, Google has nothing to compete with Bixby Routines. Bixby Assistant, too, is even less useful than Google Assistant, but here, the gap starts to close. Chrome might beat Samsung’s own Internet browser, and Samsung’s email application offers no reason not to use Gmail. It will all be buried somewhere on their phone but kept far away from all of the things that they use every day.īut ignoring all of those Samsung freebies is a mistake. The first thing that people do when they buy a new Galaxy phone is creating a Samsung folder, shove all of that Samsung bloatware into it, and make sure that it’s nowhere near the home screen. And you’ll also get Samsung’s own UI, which provides you with Samsung Internet Browser and Samsung Email, Bixby, and Samsung Calendar. It gives you Chrome and Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Calendar. You’ll get Android’s operating system, which comes packed with Google’s application suite. Buy a new Samsung device, and you’ll get two layers of software.
