News I'm not buying the Galaxy S24, and Galaxy AI is to blame

[AC News]

There's a lot to like about the new Galaxy S24 series, and it's the most exciting phone released so far this year. However, the "AI phone" might have just opened the floodgates for users to be charged subscriptions to use certain features.

I'm not buying the Galaxy S24, and Galaxy AI is to blame : Read more

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

I haven't clicked through to the article yet, but a fiver says this was written by Jerry lol.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

I haven't clicked through to the article yet, but a fiver says this was written by Jerry lol.

Ok I owe someone a fiver lol

 

[notforhire]

Ok I owe someone a fiver lol

 

[BobVA]

This is one of the funniest rants I've read in awhile. He's whining about having to pay a fee to use his phone. I guess that means he doesn't pay a carrier to use his phone either? Doesn't pay a cable company for WiFi access? Does ALL of his phone use at Starbucks so he can surf and text and use WiFi calling for free, I guess. LOL. You cannot use a smartphone without paying, and paying a bunch, month after month after month.

And I guess he never uses a streaming service, or plays games with micropayments. Only listens to FM radio, and never Sirius or Spotify. Or maybe he pirates all his music.

Unlike your carrier and internet service, if you really don't want to pay for the AI features just don't use them. The S24 will continue to work just fine without them.

Watch out buddy, because subscriptions are coming to every aspect of your life. Your next car is going to make you subscribe to use navigation, or remote start. Maybe even heated seats.

 

[BobVA]

Oh, and about that dirty word "profit": Without profits, there won't be any Samsung phones. That's why there are no longer any LG phones, or HTC phones, or Palm Treos, or Blackberries.....

 

[Juan Alf]

You're not buying the S24 for something that might or might not happen for the S25? And if all the companies create this extra tier for AI (very likely) that requires monthly payments will you go back to the Nokia 3310?!

 

[joeldf]

Don't matter to me. I won't use any AI, so there's nothing to pay extra for.

 

[Jeremy8000]

Don't matter to me. I won't use any AI, so there's nothing to pay extra for.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're using any phone made in the past several years your experience with it is almost certainly already enhanced by ai in some form.

 

[joeldf]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're using any phone made in the past several years your experience with it is almost certainly already enhanced by ai in some form.

Oh, I'm sure there's some crap "enhancements" to the photos that I don't want, but have to endure. But everything I do on it - browse this forum, and other sites in Firefox, respond to emails in the BlackBerry Hub Inbox, and watch stuff on YouTube or the streaming apps really has nothing to do with AI.

I don't ever use any "search" function on the phone itself. If I search anything, it's directly in the browser only. So if Samsung wants to charge for those extra "smart features" they've been trying to push the last few years, but I never used - like Bixby, then they can go ahead and charge for it. I don't use any of thay.

Heck, I don't even use Samsung's own keyboard - preferring the BlackBerry virtual keyboard for Android that was first pulled from the Priv years ago.

 

[lucasdeeiroz]

This is one of the dumbest articles I ever read. The guy won't buy a phone because there are some features that his current phone doesn't have and they may be paid in 2 years. 2 years free of charge, and MAYBE they will start charging after that. All of the other features will remain free. But he prefers to keep a worse phone.
I guess this one won't use AI, ever. Because all companies say it is expensive to offer these features, and that's why all of them are planning to charge for using it.
As someone else said in here: he probably doesn't pay for internet either, since he won't buy a router and have to pay for internet every month to use it. TV? Nah, cable and streaming are paid. Lamps in the house? Candles don't have bills every month to use them.

 

[Lilc73]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're using any phone made in the past several years your experience with it is almost certainly already enhanced by ai in some form.

The difference being you could kill the machine learning features before. But Samsung and every other company are embedding AI into their products with no way to turn it off. Not giving us an option except to not buy the product. This phone is actually worse since they removed features so they could replace it with AI bots and killed what was good about the S series. I hate the phone and wish I never bought it.

 

[Village_Idiot]

This is one of the funniest rants I've read in awhile. He's whining about having to pay a fee to use his phone. I guess that means he doesn't pay a carrier to use his phone either? Doesn't pay a cable company for WiFi access? Does ALL of his phone use at Starbucks so he can surf and text and use WiFi calling for free, I guess. LOL. You cannot use a smartphone without paying, and paying a bunch, month after month after month.

And I guess he never uses a streaming service, or plays games with micropayments. Only listens to FM radio, and never Sirius or Spotify. Or maybe he pirates all his music.

Unlike your carrier and internet service, if you really don't want to pay for the AI features just don't use them. The S24 will continue to work just fine without them.

Watch out buddy, because subscriptions are coming to every aspect of your life. Your next car is going to make you subscribe to use navigation, or remote start. Maybe even heated seats.

On top of that. This whole subscription this is nothing more than rumor anyway. The writer doesn't seem to know the difference between facts and rumors.