In an ideal world, Samsung devices would be running stock Android, but the actual, unfortunate reality is that Galaxy owners have to use TouchWiz instead. Hating on the Korean company’s UI and UX is nothing new, but it is amusing to observe how their hardware and software appears to fall on completely opposite ends of the spectrum. I probably shouldn’t comment since I am still on a Note 3 and TouchWiz is reportedly much improved on newer devices, but it would be sweet to see Developer Editions again.



…Stock Android…has managed to keep it streamlined, responsive, and most importantly it feels bloat-free. Samsung though, must have missed that particular memo and in doing so still delivers a bloated experience that suffers due to their insistence of adding more and more “features”, and I use that term loosely, to their phones. This isn’t to say that Google does everything properly, or that every OEM should implement stock Android with merely a boot animation distinguishing them, instead, heavy-handed experiences like Samsung’s need to be cut back, optimized, streamlined and offer the user more choice.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Samsung’s Software Still Has Trouble Catching up to Its Hardware