If you factor in the prices around the globe, they ship expensive junk.
There is no auto updating by default, he must have enabled it. People do tend to blame the manufacturer when the phone gets slow with 70+ apps installed and no maintenance ever being done.
You pay for quality, i think top of the line galaxies arent cheap either.
Infact my father is an aged man with
no games installed. Samsung has a ton of bloatware of itself. The phone has two browsers by default, one of android and one of samsung.
Utter Crap