I am a Samsung user because I hate Apple, but with a Samsung device you are not nearly as limited to what you can install. Hell, you never used to be able to install a Wifi connection checker in an iPhone. Crazy stuff.
That being said, Samsung pay for me is really easy to use on my watch. I don’t have to reach into pocket and when you forget your wallet, no problem.
I was going to say that I thought Samsung has some assembly in China, so both Apple and Samsung suck, but I guess only Apple uses concentration camp slave labor to assemble their phones of the big two:
“Samsung actually shut down its last remaining smartphone factory in China this year. As of 2019, the company is not making any phones in the People’s Republic. It previously had two factories in China but as Samsung’s market share fell below 1% in the country, it had to scale back production. It no longer makes financial sense for Samsung to manufacture phones in China. Which is why it has now stopped doing that.”
https://www.sammobile.com/where-are-samsung-phones-made
PS: They (Apple) gets a discount of said concentration camp slave labor by helping the CCP track down people who resist the CPP, so it is a Win-Win for totalitarians.
I use Apple Pay exclusively on my Apple Watch. I don’t think I’ve ever used the phone itself to pay for something, because the watch is so much more convenient.
Samsung did temporarily stop phone production in China, but many other of their brand name products including all of their tablets, TVs, and appliances and made in China.
Your assertion that Apple gets some kind of "discount" for a non-existing "concentration camp slave labor by helping the CCP track down people who resist the CPP" is completely a lie.
Apple does not contract with the CCP or even any Chinese company to assemble any of its products, although some of them are assembled in China, as are the products of over 750 other consumer electronics makers around the world. Apple contracts with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., publicly trading as Foxconn Technology Group and better known as Foxconn, a Taiwanese multinational corporation not at all owned by China! The have some Apple products (iPads) made by another Taiwanese multinational, Pegatron International. iPhones are also assembled in Brazil, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and the parts for them are made in over 180 nations around the world, including the USA. Apple computers are manufactured in China, Vietnam, Ireland, California, and Texas.
Apple receives NO discount for labor rates in China and in fact is documented to pay workers on the assembly lines where Apple products are made between 50% to 75% better wages than any workers on any other makers’ CE products, and to require, in the master contract, better working conditions. . . this is why when openings are available on Apple assembly lines, workers, including those from other lines, queue up by the thousands to apply for work on Apple’s lines!
Apple maintains its own Apple Inc. employees at every shift and plant to monitor worker pay, take worker complaints, and assure working conditions. No other CE maker does that to assess working conditions of their contracts.