With its announcement of the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Extremely, Samsung additionally unveiled a myriad of AI options, certainly one of which is Circle to Seek. This used to be created in partnership with Google, and it used to be in reality additionally presented through Google for the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional the day after Samsung’s tournament (and it is since began rolling out).

When you had been anticipating Circle to Seek to proceed its rollout to different Android units from different manufacturers, it seems you might be in for a unhappiness. In line with Samsung itself, Circle to Seek will stay unique to Google and Samsung units till no less than October.

This is the best wording instantly from Samsung’s arm within the Netherlands:

Circle to Seek might grow to be to be had on Android units from different manufacturers from 5 October 2024, however there are not any energetic traits underway for this.

That is a sexy gigantic bummer and a critical case of unwarranted gatekeeping. We are questioning if Google and Samsung suppose individuals are going to shop for an S24 or Pixel 8 particularly for this selection, and if now not, then what the purpose is.

It simply feels a tad spiteful for an ecosystem – the Android one – that was touted as a lot more open than Apple’s gated neighborhood. Neatly, the gates are beginning to seem within the Android global as neatly.

It isn’t the primary time, both – Google and Samsung are in a similar fashion gatekeeping the newest model(s) of Put on OS for his or her wearables particularly. We will’t make any sense of this habits – in the end, it is prone to anger Google’s different Android instrument maker companions, however it helps to keep doing it, so there should be some common sense at the back of it? What do you suppose?

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