Ads in Stock Samsung Apps

[The_Chief]

This is purely classless, Samsung. Really.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/...er-samsungs-galaxy-smartphones-and-im-fed-up/

What's the point of paying so much money for a Galaxy flagship phone if it's going to bombard me with ads every time I try to do... anything?!

 

[Hadron]

They are obviously feeling sufficiently secure in their position at the top of the Android heap that they think they can exploit it without fear.

The dialer would p*** me off. The others less so just because I don't use manufacturer's own apps generally, including on my ancient Samsung tablet, so I'd probably never open the rest. But the dialer is a different matter.

But you know what, my tablet possibly is coming up for replacement this year (it's still usable for its main purpose, but it is 7 years old and showing it now), and this is another point against Samsung for the replacement even though it wouldn't have a dialer and I'd not use the rest: there is a principle here.

 

[The_Chief]

You bet! The Note 20 had better be a spectacular upgrade from the Note 10 for me to buy it... but if I start seeing ads in stock apps that I can't block, it's going straight back to Samsung. If enough buyers return their phones over the ads (phones that Samsung can no longer sell as "new"), I'll wager that a very imminent update will be pushed out to kill the ads.

 

[lunatic59]

I can just hear the marketing meeting now ... "Statistics show the majority of apps downloaded from the Play store are the free-with-ads versions, so consumers are obviously okay with ads. Let's get in on the revenue stream for the next quarter and be the heroes at the next shareholders meeting."

 

[The_Chief]

YEP! Except that the first thing I'll do with a new phone like the Note 20 Ultra is disable every stock app.

Take the hint, Samsung!

 

[lunatic59]

My guess would be that, like most everything else in our privileged and entitled society, people will whine and moan, but not actually do anything about it.