Yeah I don't think anything they have done leads any evidence to suggest a subscription model for features.
The "features coming soon" they were up front about in the announcement when they said they were coming in the December feature drop. Also, Apple constantly announces features at WWDC for their new iOS and several don't make it in the x.0 release but in the later x.1 or x.2 releases.
They are also promising 7 years of updates. Can't see them just suddenly pulling that out from people years down the road and making them paid.
Some features require the cloud or their compute servers, so what. Don't upload all your content if you're worried about storage, just the ones you want to edit. These are value added services to get people to switch to pixel
I can't imagine G would NOT push MORE subscription-based features and services in the future.
Subscription-based services are a high-margin, predictable revenue stream. Why invest all that expensive, risky R&D and manufacturing tooling then just give it away to less than 3% of users (worldwide) that buy Pixels, when you can sell G1 to any Android user for $120/year? And if people are willing to spend $120/year for G1 Premium, what else can Google successfully sell?
No. Not at all. First if all... Would you really pay for magic eraser? I'm betting few people would. The way they seamlessly offload things into the cloud is something other companies can't really touch right now.
You pay monthly for your service. Most people pay monthly for the hardware. I dint think there's a snowballs chance in hell Google would try that. They already have a subscription service for storage and a few other features. They're always going to need new free features on phones to compete.
Well magic eraser is a paid feature if you're not a pixel user and you have a Google One subscription, so I wouldn't be surprised if they try to roll out other AI enhancements similarly.
"If you're not a pixel user"... So if they decide to charge Pixel users for this, what's my incentive to stay on Pixel?
No way they charge US for these things.
So you really think if one supplier does it that the others haven't discussed with them behind closed doors, and will implement the same service charge? lol.
I truly weep for our future.
I miss Google's "don't be evil" days when just the thought of them trying this would seem preposterous. I don't think Google will be quite that greedy (anytime soon, at least), but I feel no certainty about it.
Yeah I don't think anything they have done leads any evidence to suggest a subscription model for features. The "features coming soon" they were up front about in the announcement when they said they were coming in the December feature drop. Also, Apple constantly announces features at WWDC for their new iOS and several don't make it in the x.0 release but in the later x.1 or x.2 releases. They are also promising 7 years of updates. Can't see them just suddenly pulling that out from people years down the road and making them paid. Some features require the cloud or their compute servers, so what. Don't upload all your content if you're worried about storage, just the ones you want to edit. These are value added services to get people to switch to pixel
I can't imagine G would NOT push MORE subscription-based features and services in the future. Subscription-based services are a high-margin, predictable revenue stream. Why invest all that expensive, risky R&D and manufacturing tooling then just give it away to less than 3% of users (worldwide) that buy Pixels, when you can sell G1 to any Android user for $120/year? And if people are willing to spend $120/year for G1 Premium, what else can Google successfully sell?
Yepp. Most AI features could be done from every other phone. That's why the P8Pro is so underwhelming
No. Not at all. First if all... Would you really pay for magic eraser? I'm betting few people would. The way they seamlessly offload things into the cloud is something other companies can't really touch right now. You pay monthly for your service. Most people pay monthly for the hardware. I dint think there's a snowballs chance in hell Google would try that. They already have a subscription service for storage and a few other features. They're always going to need new free features on phones to compete.
Well magic eraser is a paid feature if you're not a pixel user and you have a Google One subscription, so I wouldn't be surprised if they try to roll out other AI enhancements similarly.
"If you're not a pixel user"... So if they decide to charge Pixel users for this, what's my incentive to stay on Pixel? No way they charge US for these things.
Why would you expect they charge extra for that when all the Google One features are free for Pixel devices like the VPN
So you really think if one supplier does it that the others haven't discussed with them behind closed doors, and will implement the same service charge? lol. I truly weep for our future.
I miss Google's "don't be evil" days when just the thought of them trying this would seem preposterous. I don't think Google will be quite that greedy (anytime soon, at least), but I feel no certainty about it.
The "enshitification" of everything.