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Samsung to Preinstall Spotify on New Smartphones, Including Galaxy S10
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I doubt it.
Spotify is clearly relying heavily on discounts and promotional activity to drive users to its platform. When your subscriber growth is fuelled by free users not happy with Youtube, I don’t see how Spotify can successfully convert enough of them to their paid tier, when the majority of these users are using Spotify precisely because they don’t want to pay for music in the first place.
How Spotify will eventually become financially sustainable continues to be a relevant and pressing concern.
Now that’s a good summary after a lengthy post.
It’s not about shaming Apple. It’s all about business and iOS is no different. Choking its add on services on top of expensive iPhone.
It’s okay, I’m fine with it. In fact I already use many of Apple’s service and ecosystem myself. It’s just my way of reminding that each iPhone also receive ads from apple.
It does look nice, big colorful button instead of flashy, annoying banner with X button to close it. But ads is ads. No need to sugarcoat it and yelling at google or samsung. It’s all business, nice conclusion.
I feel that it is bloatware. You can turn Apple Music off in settings, but can you do the same on this Samsung?
The thing is, we as users couldn't care less if it's profitable or not. No sane person is going to choose a streaming service or any kind of service, based on if the company has more profit over another.
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Yes, you can uninstall it, yet you can't delete the Music app, can you?
I agree that 3rd party pre-installed apps are annoying if you don't use them but for some less technically-minded people they are a selling point:
Customer after a new (i)Phone: Does it have Apple Messages? WhatsApp? Facebook?
Cusomer Service person: Yes, it comes with all three.
Customer after a new (i)Phone: Cool I'll take it.
That's the world we live in.
You can delete the music app. I did.
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In iOS 12 all those Apple apps can be deleted. Remove them if you don’t want them. Also, I hate Spotify. The UI is terrible and I find their selection of music poor. I see no difference between preinstalling Spotify or McAfee.
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Unistalled in two seconds.
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Why would it be in a press release? I uninstalled it in two seconds yesterday when setting the phone up.
U can remove it on iOS 12, the latest versionNot the music app.
That is all that matters
I see. I tested and it worked. In any case you weren't able to remove it before.U can remove it on iOS 12, the latest version
That is all that matters
I don’t think Spotify needs a press release every time they ink an agreement to have their app preinstalled on someone’s phone.
They already announced the partnership at the galaxy note 9 unpacked event last year. The CEO of Spotify came on the stage to talk about it.I don’t think Spotify needs a press release every time they ink an agreement to have their app preinstalled on someone’s phone.
Was it for all their phones? I was under the impression that it applied only to their smart speakers.
I never got that. I use it on all of my macs and my iPhone. It just works. I can listen to my library that consists of my bought music (mp3 from vinyl download cards) and some ripped CDs from back in the days. If I wanna listen to music I do not own, I use apple music.
It works flawlessly and I'm glad that I have it all in one Application. Sometimes I use my iPod nano if I work out and don't wanna get reached or distracted from calls, texts and therefore don't bring my phone.
Now back to topic as far as I remember it was about Samsung phones and Spotify.
Personally I don’t like it. I don’t want pre-installed 3-rd party software. If I want Spotify I’ll download it (and it’s a great product).
But the reason they’re offering 6 months is because they struck a deal with Samsung to be pre-installed in the Galaxy phone. This is the same kind of stuff I remember when I bought my first Android phone and had Madden Football and the Blockbuster app preinstalled.
So someone gives you a free 6 months of music and you prefer no free gift...more people will side with the free 6 months of music service. It does not hurt anyone and you can choose to delete and not use by simply pressing uninstall.