I am not insane. I'm not saying Samsung should take decisions to reduce its profits. It seems that the entire mess was not worth it and Samsung wins by getting rid of them.
If you are from the west and own a Samsung phone with One UI, then you probably know about the annoying ads Samsung drops in its first-party applications. They are likely to be gone soon as the company has decided to stop doing them. This is good news for Samsung.
The first part is the one that many people will disagree with: these ads were not that significant. There were ads in the Samsung Weather app and Samsung Pay apps, as well as the Samsung Phone app. These ads may be for Samsung services, or apps created exclusively for Samsung by third-parties. Sometimes they are also for KFC and Yahoo. Push-notification ads, which appear in your notification bar, are the worst. They did not block any content, nor added to the huge amount of data Samsung collects.
It's hard to believe that the company to which you gave $1,000 (or more) to purchase the best Android phone they have is now placing advertisements for you. This is not a good way to treat customers. Imagine if Toyota placed ads on the instrument panel of a brand new car.
Source: Jeramy Johnson / Android Central
Samsung isn’t the only company selling a billion phones each year that places ads in its apps. Many people who read this article will not have an iPhone. I am sure they don't know about the App Store, News, Stocks, or Settings apps. Sometimes they are for Apple products and services, other times for Quicken Loans.
You can make apps that contain ads the default on your Samsung phone by switching them out for those that do not. You can't do this on an iPhone. The tech press and users called for heads to be rolled at Samsung over ads in stock apps, while Apple is often given a pass. Although I don't know why, I can tell you that this practice is not exclusive to Samsung and that nobody was ever hurt by an advertisement in a Samsung application.
It doesn't mean that we have to enjoy them or be silent. They've been a problem for me just as much as you. It wasn't enough to sworn off Samsung forever, unless you didn't really want to use a Samsung smartphone but rather enjoyed complaining about it via the internet. I'm not going to make anyone mad. Sorry, I simply call it what I see.
It's all about what. What finally prompted Samsung to remove ads from its apps? Money is my first and foremost concern. I've scanned every transcript of Samsung’s earnings calls over the past two years and I cannot find any indication that the company claimed it was making money on an ad platform.
Samsung spends a lot of money on advertising, but very little on hosting them.
While there is much talk about the company investing money in advertising, none of it claims that the company made a profit by placing ads on the weather app. This is expected as Google and Facebook do everything they can to make every penny from the ads. Samsung is the most wealthy company in the world, so there's not much room for others to get in.
