The original Samsung Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S will not be updated to Android 4 because Samsung's TouchWiz interface takes up too much space, the company announced Friday. Samsung calls the choice between TouchWiz and Android 4 "inevitable," but insists to customers that keeping TouchWiz over Android 4 will provide the better user experience.

Samsung announced Wednesday that several of its recently released products would be upgraded to Android 4 by March 2012, including the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note. The company followed up by saying that the Galaxy S, released in June 2010, and the Galaxy Tab, released October 2010, will not be able to take the upgrade, despite being fairly recent releases. Why? The devices' ROMs are too small to hold both Samsung's TouchWiz interface, Widgets, video-calling application, and Android 4 at the same time.

What did you really expect Samsung to do—let you install a new operating system in place of that UI overlay you never asked for? Despite Samsung saying it has your best interests in mind, we expect to see a few users do their best to dump TouchWiz in favor of an Android 4 install, however frowned upon that may be.