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Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage (arstechnica.com)

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Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage::Samsung says Galaxy S24 AI features are "free until the end of 2025."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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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