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by jaclaz 3172 days ago
As often happens, I don't understand why one would want to subscribe in order to be notified when it becomes public.

I mean, I can understand subscribing in order to get a beta or pre-release, but if right now nothing is available and when it will be available it will be public, it seems to me nothing more than a personal data collection.

When it will be public there will also be a lot of publicity about it, so it's not likely that one needs to be notified.

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The whole point is not to notify you, rather to get a feeling how much people would eventually buy it.
>The whole point is not to notify you, rather to get a feeling how much people would eventually buy it.

Sure, but I wasn't expressing a doubt on why Samsung put that on, I was doubting why an end user would want to give away his/her name/email/company, substantially in exchange of nothing.

Because he wants this to happen.