According to our source, those purchasing the Google Pixel 9a will get Fitbit Premium for 6 months, YouTube Premium for 3 months and Google One 100GB for 3 months. This is similar to the freebies that Google offered for the rest of the Pixel 9 series.
I feel like this isn’t all that interesting news though because I thought trials were commonly included with new Android phones.
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.