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From: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Samsung account
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:08:45 +0000
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AJL <noemail@none.com> writes:

> On 3/13/2024 10:50 AM, Andrew wrote:
>
>> Since I have no accounts on my phone (for privacy reasons), I asked
>> the question over on XDA long ago of what good the Samstung Store
>> was.
>>
>> Everyone has different reasons, as with Frank & the Samsung Cloud or
>> AJL in the case of just doing everything that he's told by
>> marketing...
>
> Got that wrong. Samsung marketing certainly didn't instruct me to sign
> in with fake credentials. But the fake credentials did give me access
> to the Samsung Store which I didn't have before. However so far I've
> not seen anything I need or that I haven't already gotten from the
> (gasp) Google Play Store. Scary, huh Arlen...  8-O

Ah, perhaps that is the answer to my question. Perhaps I created an
account to access the Samsung store. I am using the Samsung phone app
because it is the only way to switch on wifi calling (that I know
about). I guess without a Samsung account, Samsung apps won't ever be
updated.

Samsung should decide what they want to do, replace google or leave it
to google, it's a bit half-way house at the moment. The store quite
often says there are updates and then says it cannot update because the
apps are from google. So why bother to notify?