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Dolby is earning money by jumping in the bed with streaming services and then asking every purchased device to pay them money for the privilege of decoding it.
by izacus 4y ago
Dolby is earning money by jumping in the bed with streaming services and then asking every purchased device to pay them money for the privilege of decoding it.
Making hardware devices like Android TV cheaper helps adoption of Googles platforms and services.
- olyjohn 4y agoIt's not about making their stuff cheaper. They just want to take the royalty money they pay and put it in their pockets. They're not going to pass the savings onto the customers. Nobody ever passes the savings on to customers. The royalty is probably a couple of cents at the most per device. It makes more sense for them to just pocket the millions in savings and show extra profit to their shareholders. It would be dumb to give up millions to drop the price a few cents, which won't even be noticed by consumers anyways.
- izacus 4y agoThe Google formats are explicitly royalty free, so I'm not sure what you're talking about here. Is Google evil because it wants the royalty money how can it be so low that it doesn't matter? :P