Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Samsung Reminds Us That You Can't Make People Use an App They Don't Want (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the rip dept.

Samsung has announced that it will be discontinuing Milk Music on September 22. The announcement comes a year after the South Korean technology conglomerate shuttered Milk Video, another service that didn't receive the traction Samsung was hoping. Peter Kafka, writing for Recode: It's true that you can't get media/apps/services to customers without access to a platform. But control of the platform doesn't mean customers are going to use your media/apps/services: They've got plenty of choices and they'll choose the ones they want. Ask Verizon and Comcast, which both launched video apps on their networks last year and have nothing to show for it. (You've heard of Verizon's Go90 only because Verizon keeps talking about it when people ask why it spent $10 billion on AOL and Yahoo; you have completely forgotten about Comcast's Watchable.) Soon you'll be able to ask AT&T, which is launching its own video app this fall, which will also feature lots of content people either don't want or can get elsewhere.

2 of 70 comments (clear)

  1. So that's what that is... by Nidi62 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I have Verizon, and I noticed Go90 on my phone a little while back but didn't even open it because I had no idea what it was. Now that I know what it is I can delete it without worry. Thanks, Slashdot!

    Also, no wonder it has no marketshare when people that have your phones have never even heard of it. Not that I would have used it anyway, but still...

    --
    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
    1. Re:So that's what that is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      That's why I'm getting a nexus, hate this bloatware all these assholes put on our stuff. Even apple doesn't let you delete it's ever expanding library of default app garbage.