The OS features Google gadgets front and center, with this distribution being called gOS 3.1 Gadgets. The desktop search facility in gOS provided by Google Desktop, and most of the web services are ...

A new Samsung Korea FAQ has offered a comprehensive response regarding GOS. The company also clarified the reason for having a list of 10,000 apps. It also offered a disappointing explanation for ...

In 2022 Samsung was hit with outrage from fans over “GOS,” a tweak to how Galaxy phones worked that throttled performance to an extent. A year later, that “feature” is still in place, but on the ...

Samsung confirmed that it uses the GOS service to “optimize” CPU and GPU performance. It said that a software update will bring a performance priority option in the Game Launcher app. The company told ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. Rocket ...

Earlier this week Samsung was caught seemingly throttling the performance of literal thousands of Android apps through its “Game Optimizing Service” (GOS), and now the company has officially responded ...

Touted as "Linux for the rest of us," gOS had its beginnings a little more than a year ago as the operating system on the widely publicized Everex gPC, which sold for $199 in Wal-Mart stores.

Earlier this month, Samsung got into hot waters over the GOS performance throttling fiasco. The company was basically found to be artificially limiting the performance of over 10,000 apps through GOS ...

The company says this service only throttles the performance of high-end game apps and not anything else. Reports of GOS slowing down apps like Instagram, TikTok, and Netflix aren’t true. The GOS ...