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Patents are useful for warning people in advance that they should divest of the Roku platform.

• SoftTalker 2y ago
  Why? Presumably Roku will now be able to subsidize the cost of the TV hardware with ad revenue. The TVs should be cheaper. They might even start giving them away. A lot of people won't care about the ads and will like paying less for a TV. Those who don't, can buy another brand.
  • tonetegeatinst 2y ago
    While I can agree that ads are needed as a way to fund some platforms like YouTube and twitch, I also bet that unless your a big creator that its probably better of to just have a "sponsored" part of the video like LTT does....sure he makes ad revenue but those world of war sponsorships have defiantly kept more small creators afloat and they can be more "loose" in say swearing or covering sensitive topics without constant worry of offending ad companies. That said I love and hate smart TV's. My family has one and while the YouTube ads are so long iv considered buying a cheap scb so I can run newpipe....its the shitty UI that really annoys me. The lack of apps... Etc This hardware is just a really big screen with a basic super cheap computer in it....hell a raspberry pi 3 b+ has better hardware and software. Many if they could standardized the dam ecosystem, we would have semi decent apps. And I wish they would stop dismounting the TV's constantly, like I know your not even breaking even on the manufacturing cost bro....so just charge the real price and make a decent product that let's me run jellyfin. If that's to hard just sell the screen and the minipc as a bundle