Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage

1,300 plus fees on top?

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Thanks I'll pass

No chance I am trusting old privacy-pirate Samy with AI features to spy on me with their proprietary junk. Just give me an open source bootloader, documented hardware, enough RAM for a 7B and get lost.

Samsung is getting more and more ridiculous with every generation of their shitty phones

Which means you can opt out of the AI features. Seems like a positive, so long as the device isn't otherwise downgraded.

On top of that their expensive phones are full of bloat.

I don’t know how anyone cat this price point considered anything other than an iPhone for Pixel.

I look forward to carrying a dumb phone again.

I won't buy any phone that doesn't let you unlock bootloader.

It's because of they're trying to copy the Google One pixel method

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Another view is that Galaxy AI is the usual bundle of baked-in Samsung features skinned on top of Android, but with generative AI being the hot new thing, Samsung went with AI-centric branding.

Whatever value you want to place on Samsung's AI features, you might soon have to place an actual monetary value on them: Despite devices like the Galaxy S24 Ultra costing $1,300, Samsung might start charging for some of these AI phone features.

This is the company that makes Bixby and the notoriously poorly coded Tizen, though, so it's hard to imagine Galaxy AI features being worth paying for.

The Galaxy AI features made by Samsung include "Interpreter," which is a copy of Google Translate's conversation mode, and Voice Recorder, a voice transcription app that is just a copy of Google Recorder (and apparently not as good).

Like most Samsung Android features, this feels more like throwing a pile of stuff at the wall and hoping something sticks rather than a collection of killer apps.

The first step to charging for something like this is throwing the idea out there, so Samsung is probably listening to how people will react between now and the end of 2025.

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Of course they'll try to monetize the next big thing.