Galaxy S7 and S7 edge don't have Samsung's music and video players preinstalled

22 February, 2016
Samsung will not be shipping the newly unveiled Galaxy S7 and S7 edge with two of the apps we've gotten used to having on its handsets. We're talking about Samsung's music and video playing apps. These will not be part of the package you'll see when you first turn on either smartphone.

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  • 23 Feb 2016

AnonD-5197, 23 Feb 2016I've always used 3rd party vid player on all my phones but ... moreAgreed! their music apps is not that good nor bad! they should better kept it!

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    • AnonD-491921
    • uu5
    • 23 Feb 2016

    WTF samsung Why the music?

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      • Anonymous
      • FKy
      • 23 Feb 2016

      Anonymous, 23 Feb 2016The stock music player is the app I use daily for hours .Sa... moresame here

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        • AnonD-77892
        • PSv
        • 23 Feb 2016

        That's good news! I never used that Samsung player even with my old S2. I and up unistalling it (root require to uninstall build-in apps) I also unstalled "browers" and "Samsung store" and all other useless apps the I NEVER EVER use! I use chrome as my default browser, mx player for video etc etc... I hate too many useless garbage on my phones background/menu. preffered to have 3rd party choice rather.

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          • samir
          • KcW
          • 23 Feb 2016

          Very stupid very stupid decision

          I hate Google ugly music player

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            • AnonD-3678
            • y$g
            • 23 Feb 2016

            Why spend development effort while Google has provided the apps for free.
            I wonder why Samsung keeps browser while people uses Chrome.

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              • Anonymous
              • p2Z
              • 23 Feb 2016

              Pretty much fail.

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                • Anonymous
                • nxi
                • 23 Feb 2016

                The stock music player is the app I use daily for hours .Samsung are idiots

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                  • AnonD-454209
                  • tDM
                  • 23 Feb 2016

                  Aaaaaaaand they even removed useful apps from Touchwiz

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                    • T-Ill
                    • RIJ
                    • 23 Feb 2016

                    The google music and video should've gone instead.. wtf this is their best apps... this bloat I absolutely accept along with S-Note.

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                      • Priyanshu
                      • X}}
                      • 23 Feb 2016

                      One more thing this tye a USB OTG(on the go) cable will also be bundled with the samsung galaxy S7 and S7E.

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                        • Nerdg
                        • 5%d
                        • 23 Feb 2016

                        Microsoft is definitely not paying Samsung. To keep Samsung from paying those patents Microsoft own they are allowing Microsoft to install apps on their devices.

                          dukaki, 23 Feb 2016Play music and Play movies aren't dedicated music/video pla... moreYes, true, I am running an Odex ROM now and I can't remove all those Google bloats even after rooting and trying almost all apps including Titanium. Of course some can be removed with Root Explorer, but that's not the point. Forcing these apps are not wise, in fact forcing any app is not wise.

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                            • AnonD-5197
                            • QDj
                            • 23 Feb 2016

                            I've always used 3rd party vid player on all my phones but their music player was actually quite good... Why remove that???? Bloats like Google's music, video, and book/magazine should be removed or be removable.

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                              • AnonD-341023
                              • K5Z
                              • 23 Feb 2016

                              ithehappy, 22 Feb 2016Jeez! One of them apps which I disable/uninstall first are ... morequite a lot I guess.

                                Play music and Play movies aren't dedicated music/video players though. Their primary function is to play Google's content. Dedicated music/video players from manufacturers are always better because they are designed for local content.
                                The reverse thing should be happening IMO: non-core google apps being only on the store. I have never used keep, google+ and the rest of google bloat. Why should I have those apps bloating the system partition, taking away precious space that I can never ever take back?
                                If you truly want to shove your services to my face, at least install them on the data partition (like most of the bloat nowadays), so that I can remove them for good.

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                                  • AnonD-506184
                                  • bRd
                                  • 22 Feb 2016

                                  I didn't mind the music app, I used that fine. The video app though, bye-bye!

                                    Jeez! One of them apps which I disable/uninstall first are those two apps, Play Movies and Music. Are you serious Samsung? How much is Google paying you?

                                      Both 'Play Music' & 'Play Movies' app are uglier than Samsung's stock music & video player.

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                                        • AnonD-97496
                                        • 0gX
                                        • 22 Feb 2016

                                        I wonder if Google had anything to do with this. I hope they do... The less non-Google bloat we have on Android phones, the faster the updates will be. TouchWiz and LG's skin have already taken a turn for the better thanks to Google working more closely with the OEMs.