That does explain why they dropped Bixby.
Google paid Samsung $8 billion to be the default search engine, app store and voice assistant
Submitted 11 months ago by celmit@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
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joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Bixby was actually pretty useful before they abandoned it. I remember using Bixby Routines to configure my phone to set itself to vibrate when I was at work and within work hours. I can’t seem to do anything but an or condition with Google’s replacement, “Modes and Routines.”
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google is shortly replacing all assistant apps with GPT powered versions. They gutted the dev teams to skeleton crews a while back, then restocked the departments woth machine learning people. The teams can’t work together at all, and that’s why the products are shit now. I’ve very little faith in future advancements from these teams of disparate developers.
rob299@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How did this post get nearly 200 upvotes but fewer comments, then an average post with 75-100 upvotes I mean I get this this news is shocking because it’s Samsung not apple, so it is a new leak regarding Gogole, but sheesh a lot of things this week was just about as ‘shocking’
The numbers are impressive, so i’m not necesarilly complaining, but those numbers caught my eye. congratulations op
rob299@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One thing to note, Lg has their own app store, they would bundle it on smartphones along with the playstore. I remember having a phone from them that did the bundling. Now I use Blu phones.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]rob299@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hadn’t use an LG phone in some time.
Aatube@kbin.social 11 months ago
Wait, Google is Samsung's default voice assistant? I though it was <insert forgettable name here>
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
At this point I don’t think I should have degoogled my life, I should have just gotten Google to pay me to continue to use their products. Given the what they’re paying everyone else, I must be worth at least a few hundred dollars a year.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are worth less than $2/year to them
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
In terms of my data on the market, yes. But in terms of Samsung’s user numbers divided by 8 billion I’m worth about $6. Based on what they paid Apple, each of their users is worth about $15. I just need to get my invoice on the right desk.
tb_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can get Google to pay you through Play Rewards!
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You are, but you’re not getting it.
Probs get down votes, but look up data late, you can put your data on the blockchain (anonymized) and get paid if somebody buys it, eg for market research.
Which essentially is what Google does.
Aatube@kbin.social 11 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Hmm interesting, it seems blockchain is everywhere. Thanks for the info!
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Sorry pal, you’re product, not customer.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Technically based on how much you’d need to pay for the different services to replace Google it kind of works out? Eg. It’s the price you’re paying for free Gmail, search, calendar, etc etc.