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it just seems a bit dumb to rewrite a basic app that already exists
Texas Instruments and Casio competed for decades over feature sets and ease of use (and also hardware qualities, but that's moot if you're going to run whatever calculator you choose on the same device). Why buy Photoshop when MSPaint comes bundled with the OS? You can change the value of a pixel in a raster graphics file to any arbitrary value in either 🙂
What does that mean? Google aren't allowed to bundle a Calc app because it's anti-competitive? I remember all that shit with Windows. Total waste of time.
I don't really care if Samsung have one, it just seems a bit dumb to rewrite a basic app that already exists within Android. Of more concern to me is the reskinned UI (fine if you like it) and all the other shit that is either not necessary or downright invasive.