- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
Buying Android phone is increasingly just the entry fee for Google’s AI ecosystem.
The direction of travel is clear: Google is pushing AI harder and harder to redefine its ecosystem and bring new, powerful features to users. Android’s core OS remains free, but Google increasingly appears to view it less as a product and more as a delivery mechanism for its AI services. As those services become more central to the modern smartphone experience, many of the platform’s most ambitious features are also becoming subscription products.
Wait, they’re gonna take all the bullshit AI stuff i fight to constantly turn off and conveniently lock it off behind a paywall I’ll never subscribe to ? Can someone explain why this is bad?
Either the incessant ads for AI integrations that you’ll eventually be willing to pay to get rid of, or the ecological devastation of it all. Take your bet on which’ll happen first
Definitely the ecological devastation, the only reason I still remain with an Android phone is the ease of using my banking, it wouldn’t take much of the ads to offset that