content: I jumped from a Galaxy S3 a few months ago to the HTC M9, but I've been thinking I'll probably go LG next time. I agree that Samsung phones are nearly as locked down as Apple. If I hadn't rooted my S3 when I did, the next OTA update introduced Knox which made it much more difficult. I thought the M9 could be rooted when I got it, but it turns out that my carrier's model is the exception, so I'm stuck trying to disable as much of the stock bloat as I can, but I can't disable all of it, and I'd rather uninstall it anyway. Add to that the fact that the glass over the camera just shattered one day, which I learned when I cut myself taking it out of my pocket. So I've been left with a bad taste in my mouth from both companies. The only reason I hadn't considered LG sooner was because they made my last two dumb phones which had terrible build quality and ended up broken.