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If we're to think of this from an economist's perspective, then you would want to get an equivalent television without the voice command feature, and it would b
by theprotocol 10y ago
If we're to think of this from an economist's perspective, then you would want to get an equivalent television without the voice command feature, and it would be cheaper.
- Daviey 10y agoWhen many smart tv's display adverts and commercial apps, you could argue that the smart feature is subsidising the TV.
- theprotocol 10y agoGood point. The point I was trying to make was that from a market efficiency perspective, this kind of thing should not be a problem. So it might be more expensive to remove the feature altogether, including the advertising revenue it would generate. Such is the cost of privacy, apparently.
- flukus 10y agoSo TV's nagging to have a connection setup is something we can look forward to then?
- pjc50 10y agoThis is a really facile comment; markets are not an infinite continuous smooth differentiable array of feature/price points, they're a mess of bundles with obfuscatory pricing an some negative added value features that have been stuck on there because the OEM was paid to do so.
- theprotocol 10y agoWhat does an economist's perspective have to do with real life markets? :)
- dragonwriter 10y agoOnly if the economist was no good at economics.