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> Problem solved. I suspect that the 5g era will bring with it many more devices connecting unbeknownst to their owners, and that "smart" appliances will be fi
by jMyles 6y ago
> Problem solved.
I suspect that the 5g era will bring with it many more devices connecting unbeknownst to their owners, and that "smart" appliances will be first on the list.
As that approaches, we need solutions that address this as well.
- megablast 6y agoThat suggests that tv manufacturers are going to pay for that extra hardware, and ongoing costs.
- centimeter 6y agoThey can recoup the costs with ads.
- moltar 6y agoThey will. Because they are selling your habit data on the backend.
- dmm 6y agoIf a significant number of people start leaving their tvs offline maybe they would. Everything is so integrated now. Perhaps it would be on the chips as the wifi so not much of an extra cost? Maybe it would be sold as a feature, like "Built in 5g hotspot!" or something like that.
- eximius 6y agoImagine if you could sell to a company an accurate estimate for the number of times your brand is mentioned in a zip code in a month. I would imagine the profits from that dwarf the hardware costs of some antennas (that the consumer pays the power for). The profit incentive from surveillance is already there. We have to be vigilant in rejecting products that include it.
- awalton 6y agoIf $30 of extra hardware makes them able to directly sell $X0+ of ads per TV per year, they're going to be happy to do it.
- porknubbins 6y agoMaybe they will build in free 5g but then can’t you just disable it? If they made a tv that could only work with a 5g connection that would be terribly inconvenient and a huge disadvantage.
- bostonvaulter2 6y agoWhat about 5g makes it cheaper than 3g or 4g for this use case?
- skykooler 6y agoMarketing. Also, smaller antennas.
- Scoundreller 6y ago> smaller antennas. For 26Ghz, yes. But unless your device will be outdoor-mount-only, you'll need bigger antennas for the frequencies that can punch through a wall.
- mindslight 6y agoAnother free service that will show up, pop out the 5g modem/sim, and gets paid by repurposing it for mobile data. And after the mobile networks develop strict firewall rules, hopefully they can pivot to selling show popularity as a service.