Well,
it was bound to happen sooner or later, as it couldn’t have been free for too
long. Samsung Milk Music, which was a Slacker supported Free Streaming Music
Service launched on Friday March 7th 2014 as described in my Geezam blog article entitled
“Don’t
cry over spilt Samsung Milk as Samsung Galaxy S5 and smartwatches disappoint”
exclusively for people toting Samsung Galaxy smartphones, just threw up a
paywall – of sorts.
They’ve
now decided to introduce advertising in the free Streaming Service to nag you
with annoying Audio and Video ads in your Music Stream as well as on the App’s interface as stated in “SAMSUNG’S
MILK MUSIC ADDS COMMERCIALS, LOSES EDGE”, published April 18, 2014 By Alex
Tretbar, DigitalTrends.
But
if you want the premium quality service, you’ll have to pay a premium quality
price: US$4.00 per months for Streaming as reported in “Samsung
Milk Music soon to feature ads, $4 ad-free option”, published April 18, 2014
7:23 AM PDT by Don Reisinger, CNET News!
The
surprise announcement was easy to miss if your eyes’ weren’t sharp, as it was
in the form of an infographic
on Samsung Blog published on Tuesday April 15th 2014….which
strangely they’ve since removed from their Newsfeed on the Samsung website!
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It
was bad enough that Milk Music was available only on Samsung Galaxy smartphones
and available only to Americans and not on all smartphones running Android. Now
– to no-one’s surprise - Samsung decides
to up the ante and effectively make it harder for them to compete in a Music
space that’s already crowded with rapidly expanding Music Streaming Services
that have rapidly expanding customer base.
Samsung
free Summer Milk offer just went Sour with the addition of Artificial
Advertising flavourings and a Premium Service no-one can afford.
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