Samsung is reportedly ending support for the Google Assistant on its smart TVs. According to the tech giant, it will stop supporting Google Assistant on its TVs from March 1st, 2024, due to a policy change from Google.
Gotta love how companies can remove features after you’ve bought them. Should be grounds for being eligible return imo
You understand that those components are dirt cheap now, right? Stupid TVs cost more for a reason. Smart TVs pay for their BS with the data they collect. It’s part of why they can be so cheap with decent specs.
You need small computer there. With self cost + margin + software development costs you typically talk about $100-$200 extra for 4K setup with decent performance. Just look at things like apple TV. I actually do not know, did not investigate how much equivalent dumb TV cost today, but my suspicion is that it is not extra data that covers the cost but
Volume of manufacturing (more smart TVs than dumb TVs are manufactured)
Ability to run adds
I suspect those netflixes, youtubes pay some money to be on by default and having dedicated button on remote control (which still means that customer pays, but now through subscription prices being higher)
You understand that smart tv needs extra hardware and constant software development and that cost of those are passed to the customer, right?
You understand that those components are dirt cheap now, right? Stupid TVs cost more for a reason. Smart TVs pay for their BS with the data they collect. It’s part of why they can be so cheap with decent specs.
You need small computer there. With self cost + margin + software development costs you typically talk about $100-$200 extra for 4K setup with decent performance. Just look at things like apple TV. I actually do not know, did not investigate how much equivalent dumb TV cost today, but my suspicion is that it is not extra data that covers the cost but