TM Roh, please take some time and actually use a Galaxy Z Fold 8. Let me explain why I’m saying this. This may seem like a tiny issue. It’s just an animation when opening and closing an album in Gallery. But what bothers me is what this tiny detail reveals: just how little Samsung’s software team seems to care about these parts of the user experience. I seriously wonder whether some of the executives responsible for this product, including TM Roh, have ever actually used the Galaxy Z Fold 8 as their primary phone. Because this problem is ridiculously easy to notice. You don’t need days of testing. Use the Z Fold 8 on its inner display for half an hour, open Gallery, tap an album cover, then go back. You’ll immediately see it: there is basically no proper transition animation. The interface simply switches from one screen to another. I have three levels of expectations for system animations: 1. Does an animation exist? 2. Does it look good? 3. Does it have originality and its own visual identity? If the animation looks bad, I can criticize the aesthetics. If it looks ordinary, I can say it lacks polish. But Samsung hasn’t even passed Level 1. And that becomes even more ridiculous when you compare it with other Android foldables. Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z TriFold, OPPO Find N6, Xiaomi 18 Fold. They are all Android foldables dealing with the same basic challenges of large screens, multitasking and UI transitions. So why can OPPO do it? Why can Xiaomi do it? Why does Samsung continue to ignore something this basic, even on a foldable costing thousands of dollars? Is Samsung incapable of making these animations? Of course they can. They simply don’t seem to consider them important enough. Leave it unfinished and someone will defend Samsung anyway. Make the experience crude and someone will say, “It doesn’t affect functionality.” Sell the phone for $2,000 and people will still buy it. Over time, why would Samsung feel any urgency to polish these details? The feature works. Good enough. Animations? Whatever. Details? Whatever. Aesthetics? Whatever. Those little things users see, touch and feel hundreds of times every day? Apparently, whatever. But this is 2026. OPPO and Xiaomi are already putting serious effort into animation logic, visual continuity, interaction feedback and their own software aesthetics. If Samsung continues treating “the feature works” as the finish line, the gap in software experience will only become more obvious. And now the iPhone Duo has arrived. Samsung no longer gets to assume that people looking for a premium foldable will eventually come back to Galaxy because there is no serious alternative. That advantage cannot last forever. What makes this even more unfortunate is Samsung’s enormous influence on the Android market outside China. For many people, Galaxy is their primary window into high-end Android. When crude interactions like this remain unchanged for years, people gradually get used to them. They start thinking this is simply what Android is supposed to feel like, and that animation, visual continuity and software aesthetics don’t really matter. And many of the people who couldn’t tolerate it may have already moved to the iPhone. That is exactly why I keep talking about these seemingly “tiny” problems. User experience is built from hundreds of tiny details like these. So if you own a Galaxy Z Fold 8, try this right now. Unfold it. Open Gallery on the inner display. Tap an album cover. Then go back. Look at it yourself. Is this really the software experience you expect from a nearly $2,000 flagship foldable in 2026? Stop rationalizing every problem Samsung leaves unfinished. The more users defend every missing detail, the less reason Samsung has to improve it. It’s your money. You bought a flagship. You have every right to expect Samsung to get the basics right.