Samsung promises $500 worth of various subscriptions and services

[Misanthrope]

So it seems like if you can't win em with your (horrible) looks or your (marginally improved) specs you might as well, how shall we say, persuade your customers by taking advantage of your massive size to get some deals? 

 

 

 

In the wake of being partially responsible for the world’s most retweeted tweet and debuting the first commercial for the Galaxy S5, Samsung has revealed that the upcoming flagship handset will ship with more than $500 worth of premium app subscriptions.

As part of the Galaxy Gifts bundle, users will receive a year of premium service through personal trainer app Run Keeper, a 12 month subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek +, a year subscription to personal wellness assistant Lark, a six month subscription to The Wall Street Journal, a three month Premium LinkedIn account, three months of Evernote Premium and three months of 1TB storage from Bitcasa, among others.
 

Collectively, the LinkedIn offer and The Wall Street Journal subscription are worth $235 alone. In total, Samsung listed 15 apps and services as part of the bundle. The offer appears to be limited to users in the US as of writing.

 

Source:
http://www.techspot.com/news/55871-samsung-galaxy-s5-to-arrive-with-more-than-500-worth-of-app-subscriptions.html

I don't know it might be just me but I don't really need Samsung to pay a bunch of people to tell me how much better off economically other businesses are, how fat I am or have my data stolen by persuading me to use LInkedIn. It really seems like they're angling for the business types and all but oh well, it's seems like the modern equivalent of offering you a bunch of coupons to me.

[dizmo]

Haha I'm with you on that one. I don't think I'd use a single one of those apps. There are plenty of free excellent fitness apps, or ones that don't cost an arm and a leg.

The personal wellness assistant? Not that valuable. A fitness instructor really needs to work one on one with you. The stuff the app provides can be found for free in hundreds of places on the net.

[LinusTech]

Anything that includes less than a 1 year subscription is basically saddling me with an obligation to keep using it (and pay for it) once the short trial period is over...

 

I hope Bitcasa for example is paying Samsung to provide this rather than the other way around...

[Misanthrope]

Well it will likely go well with a device already saddled by Touchwiz anyway. But well if you were planning to subscribe to the Wall street journal and at the same time are in the market for a new phone, there you go.

[LAwLz]

The new subscriptions doesn't seem as good as the ones you used to get.

Were is my 2 year subscription to Dropbox with 50GB of storage? Why did you remove that subscription? It was great. Far better than 3 months on bitcasa.

[mr moose]

Well, phones are quickly getting to stage where we don't need an upgrade every year, In fact feature stagnation has become so bad that my phone form 4 years ago still does everything I need it to, net, apps, games etc.  So the manufactures now have to start finding other value adds to entice people to upgrade.  What will be interesting to see is what apple does to ship its handsets, free apple tv subscription? longer warranties? app store vouchers?

[Pitou]

So it seems like if you can't win em with your (horrible) looks or your (marginally improved) specs you might as well, how shall we say, persuade your customers by taking advantage of your massive size to get some deals? 

 

 

Source:

http://www.techspot.com/news/55871-samsung-galaxy-s5-to-arrive-with-more-than-500-worth-of-app-subscriptions.html

I don't know it might be just me but I don't really need Samsung to pay a bunch of people to tell me how much better off economically other businesses are, how fat I am or have my data stolen by persuading me to use LInkedIn. It really seems like they're angling for the business types and all but oh well, it's seems like the modern equivalent of offering you a bunch of coupons to me.

so a bunch of bloatware, welp no s5 for me