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Google paid Samsung $8 billion to be the default search engine, app store and voice assistant (www.cnbctv18.com)

submitted 10 months ago by celmit@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nah just invoice for printer ink, and there is a good chance someone pays it.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, would that even be a crime as long as you sent them the ink with a 10000% markup?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Depends on how contract savvy you are... if you word it as a service contract where acceptance is payment, you can sometimes get away with not sending them anything.

But generally yes, that's what you would do. Often times it's ink for a discontinued machine that nobody uses before. The ink itself is probably recalled.

[–] LicenseToChill@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like when that guy scammed google out of 120mil with fake invoices

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

That's impressive. Usually the target organizations with a lot of autonomy, but poor payment controls. Like school districts... the schools usually have the autonomy to enter into their own small contracts, but a central office has no idea what invoices are legitimate without calling every school for each invoice.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

You can get Google to pay you through Play Rewards!

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

You are, but you're not getting it.

Probs get down votes, but look up data latte, 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. Sells your data to the market

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

wtf that sounds dumbly interesting
i can't find it

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's an idea to play with... I dont think the specifics are all ironed out, but maybe with more building and more ideas would we control our data and earn from it like the corporations do.

https://www.datalatte.com/

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Participate in surveys that actually matter.

Seems like yet another survey rewards site except maybe with blockchain and dollars

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can download your Spotify data for example and get rewarded for it.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, where would you sell it to?

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Data market

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Data latte. Sorry I mistyped earlier.

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm interesting, it seems blockchain is everywhere. Thanks for the info!

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 10 months ago

Sorry pal, you're product, not customer.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That does explain why they dropped Bixby.

[+] LWD@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] Virkkunen@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Modes & Routines is literally Bixby Routines renamed to remove the Bixby branding (and to avoid confusion with people thinking it's part of the voice assistant). Absolutely nothing was removed from this change other than the Bixby name and it's still the same good and old Samsung developed app, Google has nothing to do with it.

Judging by the fact that you can set multiple if conditions (and it explicitly says "when all conditions below are met") straight from the main view of the routine, it means you haven't even tried creating a routine at all.

https://i.imgur.com/zjouWZj.png

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hm. Turns out mode is something different from a routine. Who knew?

Thanks for the tip.

[–] rob299@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Many people vote but may not have much to say about the topic or that someone has already said what they're thinking.

[–] rob299@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.