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Can I get the phone for less if I don't want any of that crap?
Sadly I'm sure there's no such thing much like getting a license fee back if I don't want Windows preinstalled.
Keep all your free trial. I'mma uninstall stock android anyway.
Yeah but now they can increase the price with minimum risk and could even benefit to those that get lock their data into those services.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem, but if someone doesn't want to be locked into their increasingly expensive services, then they shouldn't be using those services in the first place. I feel like I missed your point, though...
Think of it this way the avg person wants to get value out of what they bought and they don't think ahead. so they use the free trial rebranded as included with the price. Then before too long all their stuff in in there and they are too lazy or too tired to move off. It's the cocaine selling model but instead of addiction it relies on apathy. And if you are the one of the people that does think ahead then you're not going to use the service and so therefore they got to increase the price of their product without you putting a strain on those free services it's a win-win for them.
Misleading headlines, should have been pixel 9a comes with YouTube Premium Trial.
I agree, but Rule 6 does not allow me to editorialize a headline.
Not your fault man, not your fault.
From whatI know of the mod team, you can summarize the article but you can't add your own opinion about something. It's to prevent user bias from creeping into titles because most people don't read the articles.
Cool, so don't post a bullshit non-news article then? There is nothing of substance here? Nobody needed this "news", what are you doing, dude?
Contributing. It might still be interesting to some. Itβs a slow community. Android news isnβt what it used to be. Why donβt you step up and contribute to show me how itβs done?
Contributing is noble, appreciate your effort as we have to build. But you scroll past articles constantly in your daily life, you have a line below which you don't post, you should raise your line. No value in this post. At best it's boring and isn't additive - and I do contribute actively.
This isnβt a freebie. Its the same βtry this amazing thingie and now try it with shit tons of ads in three monthsβ
The fact that google can have a monopoly of their own services pre installed is cause of concern for the future.
Lol three months, fucking worthless, make it for the life of the phone and we can talk. If I got a 9a I would probably never activate this for fear of being charged after the trial ends.
As someone who uses YouTube Premium, this title piqued my interest. While lifetime would be nice, I figured it would be at least 1-2 years, which could make this phone pretty good value for me. At 3 months, I agree, I'm not sure if it's even work activating.
As someone who is intimately familiar with Google's shenanigans, this is not worth activating. These are insulting of them.
Only for 3 months huh? Guess their learned their lesson from offering free unlimited Google Photos forever from the Pixel 1 lol
This is a misleading headline. Fuck your technicality. Free trial... TRIAL.
How much did sundar the creep paid for this advert?
I guess when your phones suck you need to try to compete on services.
In any case, the headline should say "Free trials" (not OP's fault.) Useless.
Free YouTube Premium
so, Firefox pre-installed then?
Revanced
PipePipe
I don't get it
I use NewPipe so I don't know what features premium has
does it run Graphene or Calyx yet? otherwise, kinda don't give a shit about yt premium plus or whatever
They include every service in the world, but if there is no headphone jack they can get fucked.
Till it doesn't.
Never trust google to maintain a service. Pixel VPN and the Pixel 2 year upgrade program say hi.
And let me guess, in order to get the "free" service you are forced to link a valid credit card and it will automatically renew without warning
How much more do I have to pay to not get those?
And the Fitbit bullshit is a scam. They started charging me without a word after 3 months, took me a couple months to notice I was paying for a service I used for a week and uninstalled. Google told me to go fuck myself when I tried to get a refund.
Is this actually new for the "a" series?