Trying to use games like any Majong or Solitaire or Yahtzee ends up with game apps that mess with my home screen displays, create push advertising that won't allow me to get to apps that are actually critical function apps that monitor blood glucose levels constantly and if not operating properly and being immediately accessible at all times, can result in life threatening situations!
What that boils down to is that I cannot have any games on my phone at all!
If Samsung and Google cannot assure the apps they offer can be trusted, then why offer them at all?
That's the hidden cost of playing "free" games. None of these games are ever free. They will find a way to monetize if customers won't pay to play. Samsung and Google may list them on their stores, but they have nothing to do with the games' content or how they make money.
If you have a device purchased through a carrier, the hidden cost of reduced device pricing is the bloatware they get to push to those devices.
Adverts I understand. I have first hand knowledge of how Soap Operas gained that moniker. But "As The World Turns" never locked the channel knob of my tvs and scrambled the channel numbers on that knob. When the application that tracks your blood sugar 24x7 forwards that info to your doctor's computer and your spouses, provides warning alarms when it's too high, too low, changing too rapidly, or lost communication with the sensor/transmitter connected to your body, suddenly disappears from your home screen AND the full library of your apps, and even a full reboot doesn't bring the app you need in to anywhere you can open it, and you have to do a safe restart and spend several hours searching through your apps and deleting every game app you have before your phone will reboot into the way you had originally... well, that's just plain evil and a serious medical emergency about to happen. When a parent can equip their diabetic child with a smartphone that reads the sensor 24x7 and immediately sends that to your phone so you can watch over your child's insulin/sugar control while they are in school or a field trip, you do not want an app written by a jerk taking the whole system off line.
