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"Smart tv's have already beaten this one to the punch by a few years now." Yes, but no technologically clueful or savvy person is buying or using a "smart tv".
by rsync 11y ago
"Smart tv's have already beaten this one to the punch by a few years now."
Yes, but no technologically clueful or savvy person is buying or using a "smart tv". Those are "grandma devices" that get sold to the demographic still shopping at Best Buy (whatever that is).
The HN crowd thoughtfully buys computer monitors that don't connect to networks. Like an NEC commercial (airport) display.
Right ?
- BillinghamJ 11y agoAs a very technologically savvy person, most TVs I have bought recently are "smart" TVs, just because that functionality happened to be included. I don't use it, but I imagine it's probably listening anyway. This is the case for most non-technical people as well.
- Tloewald 11y agoIf I have a choice of a "smart" TV and a dumb one with the same panel, I pick the dumb one (it's also cheaper, but I'd probably pay extra). My "smart" TV in the living room would show ads on power-up until someone told me how to deactivate them. It still nags me to update its useless apps when I accidentally press the "internet" button on the remote.
- akhilcacharya 11y agoI wasn't aware that airport displays like that are available to the public. Fascinating!