A survey of more than 2,000 smartphone users by second-hand smartphone marketplace SellCell found that 73% of iPhone users and a whopping 87% of Samsung Galaxy users felt that AI adds little to no value to their smartphone experience.
SellCell only surveyed users with an AI-enabled phone – thats an iPhone 15 Pro or newer or a Galaxy S22 or newer. The survey doesn’t give an exact sample size, but more than 1,000 iPhone users and more than 1,000 Galaxy users were involved.
Further findings show that most users of either platform would not pay for an AI subscription: 86.5% of iPhone users and 94.5% of Galaxy users would refuse to pay for continued access to AI features.
From the data listed so far, it seems that people just aren’t using AI. In the case of both iPhone and Galaxy users about two-fifths of those surveyed have tried AI features – 41.6% for iPhone and 46.9% for Galaxy.
So, that’s a majority of users not even bothering with AI in the first place and a general disinterest in AI features from the user base overall, despite both Apple and Samsung making such a big deal out of AI.
please burst that bubble already so i can get a second hand server grade gpu
I side graded from a iPhone 12 to an Xperia as a toy to tinker around with recently and I disabled Gemini on my phone not long after it let me join the beta.
Everything seemed half baked. Not only were the awnsers meh and it felt like an invasion of privacy after reading to user agreement. Gemini can’t even play a song on your phone, or get you directions home, what an absolute joke.
It actually made my Google speakers assistant dumber because I think they’re trying to merge the 2
It is, for everybody mostly.
Do I use Gen AI extensively?…
No but, do I find it useful?..…
Also no.
My kids school just did a survey and part of it included questions about teaching technology with a big focus on the use of AI. My response was “No” full stop. They need to learn how to do traditional research first so that they can spot check the error ridden results generated by AI. Damn it school, get off the bandwagon.
I say this as an education major, and former teacher. That being said, please keep fighting your PTA on this.
We didn’t get actually useful information in high school, partially because our parents didn’t think there was anything wrong with the curriculum.
I’m absolutely certain that there are multiple subjects that you may have skipped out on, if you’d had any idea that civics, shop, home economics, and maybe accounting were going to be the closest classes to “real world skills that all non collegate educated people still need to know.”
I suppose that’s exactly what they should be teaching.
“PLEASE use our hilariously power inefficient wrongness machine.”
AI is not there to be useful for you. It is there to be useful for them. It is a perfect tool for capturing every last little thought you could have and direct to you perfectly on what they can sell you.
It’s basically one big way to sell you shit. I promise we will follow the same path as most tech. It’ll be useful for some stuff and in this case it’s being heavily forced upon us whether we like it or not. Then it’s usefulness will be slowly diminished as it’s used more heavily to capitalize on your data, thoughts, writings, code, and learn how to suck every last dollar from you whether you’re at work or at home.
It’s why DeepSeek spent so little and works better. They literally were just focusing on the tech.
All these billions are not just being spent on hardware or better optimized software. They are being spent on finding the best ways to profit from these AI systems. It’s why they’re being pushed into everything.
You won’t have a choice on whether you want to use it or not. It’ll soon by the only way to interact with most systems even if it doesn’t make sense.
Mark my words. When Google stops standard search on their home page and it’s a fucking AI chat bot by default. We are not far off from that.
It’s not meant to be useful for you.
Yes, it seems like no one even read the damn user agreement. AI just adds another level to our surveillance state. Its only there to collect information about you and to figure out the inner workings of its users minds to sell ads. Gemini even listens to your conversations if you have the quick access toggle enabled.
Am I crazy? I’ve got this thing writing code and listing website listings. I ask it certain things before Google and just have it give me the source. I use it to sum up huge documents to quickly analyze them before I go through them. Feels like how Google felt I when it first came out. Yall using the same ai?
(Apple ai is not what I’m talking about)
I also use gen AI for coding assistance and have had an extremely positive experience, but I almost never use it on my smartphone
Students are currently one of the major benefactors of LLMs lol.
I planned to skip this generation, assuming this would be the year of useless ai cramming, even though my phone was getting old. Samsung was so desperate to sell s25s upgrading was essentially less than staying with my current model. Bought it, and turned all that mess off
I used it once. Told it to pretend to be a centaur from Mars and explain how centaur sex works. Pretty fucking funny, but yeah it was a one-off.
…so how does centaur sex work? Don’t leave us hanging!
So first off it spoke like a generic fantasy character with neighing here and there, I didn’t think centers neighed given that they have a human mouth but whatever. It said it’s just like horse sex but there’s extra intimacy because of the human torsos. It also said something about the “power and wisdom of Mars”.
Amazing, I can finally to sleep now. I shall right this in my diary with great enthusiasm!
And how does breast feeding work? Is it from the human tit or the horse tit?
finally somebody asking the real questions.
Not only that, but Google assistant is getting consistently less reliable. Like half the time now I ask it a question and it just does an image search or something or completely misunderstands me in some other manner. They deserted working, decent tech for unreliable, unwanted tech because ???
Profit potential. Think of AI as one big data collector to sell you shit. It is significantly better at learning things about you than any metadata or cookies ever could.
If you think of this AI push as “trying to make a better product” it will not make much sense. If you think of the AI push as “how do I collect more data on all my users and better directly influence their choices” it makes a lot more sense.
Well, that’s depressing. Where’s my Star Trek future?
Tbf most people have no clue how to use it nor even understand what “AI” even is.
I just taught my mom how to use circle to search and it’s a real game changer for her. She can quickly lookup on-screen items (like plants shes reading about) from an image and the on-screen translation is incredible.
Also circle to search gets around link and text copy blocking giving you back the same freedoms you had on a PC.
Personally I’d never go back to a phone without circle to search - its so under-rated and a giant shift in smartphone capabilities.
Its very likely that we’ll have full live screen reading assistants in the near future which can perform circle to search like functions and even visual modifications live. It’s easy to dismiss this as a gimmick but there’s a lot of incredible potential here especially for casual and older users.
I do not need it, and I hate how it’s constantly forced upon me.
Current AI feels like the Metaverse. There’s no demand for it or need for it, yet they’re trying their damndest to shove it into anything and everything like it’s a new miracle answer to every problem that doesn’t exist yet.
And all I see it doing is making things worse. People use it to write essays in school; that just makes them dumber because they don’t have to show they understand the topic they’re writing. And considering AI doesn’t exactly have a flawless record when it comes to accuracy, relying on it for anything is just not a good idea currently.
only corporations ever pushed it, customers do not want it or need it.
