New Galaxy Club- Samsung wants Galaxy users for life

[Sonora]

Samsung's Galaxy Club: A Leasing Model for Yearly Upgrades

• Samsung's new Galaxy Club program is essentially a phone leasing plan, mirroring carrier financing models, where users upgrade yearly.

• This strategy prioritizes Samsung's profits over significant year-over-year improvements in their devices, potentially hindering innovation.

• While convenient for users, the program aims to lock customers into the Samsung ecosystem and yearly upgrades, potentially sacrificing features and long-term value.

https://www.androidpolice.com/samsungs-new-galaxy-club-doesnt-make-sense/

[GoanGeek]

I am open to all options 😊

The more the better. ❤

All phones have kinda plateaued at the moment.

Also if budget permits its better to be in an eco system which works for you then not.

Will have to see how things pan out and make your choices.😊

[lminvti]

Sounds interesting, people always love to have more options available 😊

[Joeeye]

It's an option to those who do yearly upgrades, however this is a US based service from what I see and to them, the deals are typically not worth it. They usually get far better trade in values than we do over here in the UK or Europe, so the deal may appeal more here than the US. Personally I'd probably never take it up as someone who doesn't use Samsung Care+, but for those who do and want peace of mind, it's probably a worthwhile look. All this spin on sacrificing features and such is such a poor take on the whole that it's obvious the bias emanating from the report itself.

[Sonora]

I don't know what he said incorrectly? What's innovative about the fact that Samsung changed only the chip and one camera, slightly rounded the edges compared to not one, but three of its predecessors? So, Samsung has been making such meager differences in new flagships since the S21 series, and this entire text makes sense of Samsung's behavior.

Samsung wants users like Apple has.

In my country,  Samsung's biggest partner and reseller (and that's not mobile carrier) has been selling Samsung flagships on lease for years to small businesses companies.

[Joeeye]

Then what's so innovative about the S24 over the S23? Or the S23 over the S22 for that matter? It's really easy to bash a small upgrade year on year, but this is a general argument that can be made each year. Why then is the S25 line any different? How does what Samsung do any worse than any other Android manufacturer or Apple?

A "small" bump in performance isn't something to scoff at. The S25 series has brought the biggest CPU/GPU performance leap in any generation. I'm not sure how else to put it, but simply, it's unmatched in any update before. You might not appreciate this fact, but it doesn't change that it's true.

What's wrong with how this article reads is that it's presenting assertions, without evidence nor facts, about Samsung stifling innovation from a program which has no record or history to base it off. Just as how you deem the S25 series as "lacking" in innovation, it really surprises how you do not apply that same belief on any prior device, S24 and before. If we use that same argument, the S22 series would be deemed as the only innovative device Samsung released based on your criteria as it was the first S series to introduce the S-Pen within the phone, but even then this is simply just an extension of the Note series. So is that even an innovation then? So then the only innovations are the original Note and Galaxy S phones right?

[Sonora]

That's what I said, the differences between the last 4-5 flagships are almost non-existent, and yet the S24 ultra was 40% faster than the S23 ultra. Samsung wants users who won't even ask questions here on the forum "When will OneUI XY to SXY series", it wants users who will return the previous mobile phone every year in exchange for a new one, and enjoy the latest software (AI) for the next year, and such a plan of his is contrary to his promise of 7 years of software upgrades. Every delay of both security and OneUI updates so far only confirms everything that has been stated in this text. For Samsung, so many of its mobile phones have simply become a burden

[Joeeye]

The issue is, you seem to think every new upgrade is aimed at the same customer each year. It's up to you, the user to decide if the upgrade is worth your while. New products aren't based on your schedule. Why do you have issues with a company releasing new, upgraded devices? Samsung do not force you to buy their phones each year. It's not like you can't keep your current device for 4-5 years, then upgrade. Why does it bother you about the in betweens?

Your gripes with software updates doesn't even bely the reality of where we've come from. If you go back 5 or 6 years in Android, you'll know updates were never this good or frequent. Acting like this "delay" is purely based from being spoilt in recent years but isn't anything close to how previous updates were handled. The frustration that many see, is a constant whine, akin to baby tantrums, about a non issue which has never existed in Android or has any history of.

[Sonora]

You've obviously forgotten that Galaxy AI is free until the end of this year. This text indicates how Samsung will charge for its AI. You'll either be a member of this new club, or you'll pay a hefty subscription fee for AI, and you'll have to, because otherwise half of the functions in the AI ​​MOBILE won't work, so the user doesn't really have much choice.

Without AI you will have dumb smartphones 😂. Very expensive dumb smartphones 

[Joeeye]

It's interesting, the article makes numerous claims about Samsung's plans. How AI factors into this scheme is beyond me, but so much speculative claims are literred throughout, it's hard not seeing the obvious angle here. It feels like someone from Apple was asked to do a piece on it. Personally, I don't think Samsung can or ever will force me into buying anything I do not want. Even if it were to try something so brazen, there's plenty of alternatives out there.