Samsung may start charging for certain Galaxy AI features in 2025
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- Anonymous
- rJV
- 30 Sep 2024
Why to pay in addition for AI features when customers have already paid higher price while purchasing the phone. Already Samsung phones are priced on higher end.
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- Anonymous
- GRQ
- 30 Sep 2024
Charging for AI should be made illegal.
It will exacerbate the gap between the haves and have nots even more.
I hope the EU takes this up
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- Anonymous
- 05b
- 30 Sep 2024
Shamrock Sean, 30 Sep 2024Apple will be charging for it as well The important differentiator here is quite, uhm, important. You can't run Apple's "intelligence" on your phone hardware even if you have a brand new iPhone 15 you bought a couple months ago. Because Apple did what Apple always do, set a long-play grift up by deliberately selling "flagship" devices with budget phone memory capacity.
I've been reading a few writeups on various tech sites, to see how yech "journalists" reacts to or responds to Apple's claims about "compromised experiences" on non-pro iPhone 15 models, and older iPhones. Remember, Apple has bragged about industry leading neural engines and graphics processing power for almost a decade now. Not surprisingly, tech "journalists" all seem to just swallow the lies without consideration. Some are even doubling down on degrading consumers for being silly to question Apple Corporation.
No wonder Apple didn't dare to launch the "snake oil" in Europe, as Margrethe Vestager would tear Apple a new number two, the size of tens of billions. Too bad we don't seem to have a single honest tech writer left on the internet, though.
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- Anonymous
- Fek
- 30 Sep 2024
Nothing new, Google is going to charge for the useful Gemini functionality, Microsoft does same with Copilot+, OpenAI does that if you want everything and Apple will prettt sure also ask money for some stuff in the end.
Samsung will probably charge for the AI that uses the cloud, not the on device stuff and same applies for most companies I mentioned.
Because on device AI is precisely that, but the Cloud one is not realistic to stay free, even if the user is tge product, the power those computers need is absurdly high.
I could argue AI is not useful enough to provide to the whole planet considering how much power it needs.
But that aside, nothing new, was to be expected.
I don't use or need AI so I don't mind this, but people should understand why companies are going to ask money for it.
"But chinese brands do not!", they use the free AI google provides or have some fake AI available, that's pretty much the reason why it is free.
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- Jack Kracker IV
- thc
- 30 Sep 2024
Companies heavily market AI in their products, only to annoy the customers into not using them.
Just like google ads.
Also, companies heavily put their money into this sunk-cost-fallacy project (like it's some sort of FOMO for corpo) only to not hallucinate and not function as intended.
An eerie similarity with Sony's Concord.
Though AI would have cost more than $400 M development money.
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- Anonymous
- q3R
- 30 Sep 2024
I do use AI, but not on my phone. I certainly wouldn't pay for Galaxy AI as I actually want to disable it at this time.
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- Shamrock Sean
- dSV
- 30 Sep 2024
Anonymous, 30 Sep 2024Yeah, this is just a repeat of really old news. Not sure wh... moreApple will be charging for it as well
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- Shamrock Sean
- dSV
- 30 Sep 2024
IpsDisplay, 30 Sep 2024Charge them Samsung, Samsung fan's love paying for not... moreErm hello?? Uses same design for flagships?? Apple has used same design for their flagships for years now and their cheaper options are the same. Dumb comment
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- Anonymous
- YUU
- 30 Sep 2024
Lol 🤣 AI crap in 2024 to 2025 🙄🤦🏻♂️
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- Vale
- pMh
- 30 Sep 2024
The might as well remove all the AI features from the OS and no one will even notice. Only circle to search is useful
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- Anonymous
- 05b
- 30 Sep 2024
Modeey, 30 Sep 2024This was the news from a year ago but nobody confirmed it u... moreYeah, this is just a repeat of really old news. Not sure what the point is as we already knew this. Maybe because a new player in the mobile AI business is struggling a lot more than they feared they would?
You know what this means? Dirt cheap iPhones 16 phones for Black Friday! \o/
Just a clarification of what's going it be a subscription service on Samsung phones: Anything that'll use cloud-based processing. Which incidentally isn't a lot on most Samsung phones, as pretty much everything can be forced to run on the phone.
Cloud-based AI is indeed very likely a bubble that could be so bad it'll cause recession when it fails. All tech companies has spent billions on data centres for this. It's crypto all over again, times ten.
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- IpsDisplay
- kaJ
- 30 Sep 2024
Charge them Samsung, Samsung fan's love paying for nothing
Samsung doesn't use si/c batteries, reuses the same design for flagships in their entry level A0 series, resells the same z fold over and over
And the fans go 🤩😍 and spend
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- Nikojas
- GXs
- 30 Sep 2024
I'd rather pay for an extra year if security updates if anything. Definitely not AI gimmicks.
- DarlingYext
- 6mM
- 30 Sep 2024
It's NOT a feature of the device that you've already paid for, if you have to pay for it separately.
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- fren
- wdx
- 30 Sep 2024
don't give a damn coz the only AI feature that I used is circle to search. the others after trying out never !!! I didn't even bother to try the lastest 6.1.1 features on both my phone & tablet
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- Anton .el PAPI.
- JQn
- 30 Sep 2024
This is where the AI bubble that no one uses!! will explode and they will put aside this nonsense and start innovating if you want to stay relevant in the market! no one cares about AI
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- JoshB
- mdf
- 30 Sep 2024
I don't give a crap about AI, but I care that I can use my phone as long as I can. They promised 4 years of software updates for my S22, I'd be happily charged for updates after that.