Google Paid Samsung 'Enormous Sums' for Gemini AI App Installs

[toomuchtodo]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-21/google-paid-samsung-enormous-sums-for-gemini-ai-app-installs

[spiderfarmer]

Wasteful strategies like paying for installing apps that make you lose even more money reek of desperation. What’s the goal here? Inflate usage numbers to show investors that dwindling search queries will be compensated for by their AI products?

[guestbest → spiderfarmer]

Hoover up personal user data and AI related text entry and deny competition from accessing it.

[toomuchtodo]

https://archive.today/4mu4F

[dmitrygr]

A service so good, you need to pay to have it pre-installed on devices for it to see any use.