The update is terrible. My lovely Samsung now looks like an iPhone. If I wanted the simple unsophisticated approach used by Apple, I would've just bought an iPhone.
On the lockscreen the notifications are now much larger and in your face.
Previously on the home screen there was an awesome seamless ability where if you swiped down you'd get notifications, and a second swipe within that would pull down further and you'd see things like brightness and wifi connection. Now, these are two separate swipes like on the iPhone, a really dumbed down approach.
On the apps page, the search tab is at the bottom, like on the iPhone which is super annoying and un-intuitive. So when you click on search at the bottom of the screen the recently used apps appear at the top of the screen, that makes no sense.
Changing the Samsung mail app to a silly white box with the @ sign, what is this, 2003?
I just don't understand how this update made it through any reviews and people thought, yes this is a good idea. People buy Samsung because firstly (I hope) they just prefer what Samsung has to offer, but secondly, the fact that it's not restrictive and over simplified like an iPhone. But for some reason, we're now going down that route. Is a little more revenue from iPhone users worth potentially losing long-time Samsung customers?
