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True. But Apple TV/Apple TV+ are cutting it pretty close.
But I think that is a temporary thing - I don't think Apple TV is going to be long term product - TVs are too smart now
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Highly relevant comic (although it's quite outdated now) https://bonkersworld.net/naming-dartboard
Heh, that’s cute. And it still seems reasonably close to reality - the only thing I think it’s missing OTOH is Google One. Apple has Books, Pay, Wallet, Store, App Store, One, and TV. All they’re missing is Cast and Go!
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Highly relevant comic (although it's quite outdated now) https://bonkersworld.net/naming-dartboard
Heh, that’s cute. And it still seems reasonably close to reality - the only thing I think it’s missing OTOH is Google One. Apple has Books, Pay, Wallet, Store, App Store, One, and TV. All they’re missing is Cast and Go!
And then there's Intel which literally reused numbers for its Xeon series so you have to check the chipset/socket type otherwise you could be 10 years off.
And then there's RAM where vendors will put numbers like "3600" after say 2400Mhz RAM because it's that product's series number but knows full well that it's also a common clockspeed. You'd think they're just trying to trick you and do an upsell to fools but sometimes they also go the other way as well. I don't think they realize how confusing it is
So yeah, Google isn't doing that bad
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The 1080p60 bug can be fixed by cutting the plastic lid off the Chromecast and adding a fan.
> The 1080p60 bug can be fixed by cutting the plastic lid off the Chromecast and adding a fan. I can't tell if you are serious. I can imagine circumstances where this would work, but... they involve the chromecast having a temp sensor and software to lower the clock speed to prevent overheating, resulting in skipped frames, but at the same time somehow not be able to lower the bitrate of the video stream. Seems... mi…
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Big Roku fan here. Was an early adopter, have had many versions of the device over the last dozen years and been a brand evangelist to my friends and family. I also try to avoid being a panelist in behavior datasets. For this reason there are financial planning services I won't use and I won't buy a Vizio TV. So, I'm very curious about your assertion that Roku is doing analytics for sale. I hadn't seen that before, s…
From last year: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20908128/smart-tv-survei... but my source was a long time Roku employee who eventually quit after the monetization started getting "out of hand" (his words, not mine).
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Almost no one remembers and it's safe to forget previous Google TV. Meanwhile Xbox Series X/S is confusing and Xbox / Xbox 360 / Xbox One shouldn't be forgotten. So MS is worse for now.
I'm assuming parent was alluding to the "Live!" Windows days, where internet-enabled products suddenly became "{Product} Live!" Eventually, everything of consequence ended up with the suffix, and they finally dropped it. But say what you want about Microsoft. Somewhere out there there's a publicly accessible doc describing the naming. And probably a video too. * * https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/partners/vide…
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/media-services-dotnet-live-...
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Has logitech ever been been good at updates in general? Why would a peripheral company even be good at home entertainment? I'd agree that Nvidia's connection to home entertainment is just as vague, but they still sound much more reliable to me than Logitech. And as much as people love bringing up Google deprecating stuff, I still trust them far more on updating this than any outside company.
Logitech has been in the home entertainment space for a long, long time (with their Harmony remotes, which did need software to make them work). In 2015 I'd certainly have placed more trust in a Logitech device in that space than an Nvidia one.
Goodness me, this is an exemplary example of the type of website that I just cannot abide. Style over content, and the presentation just plain getting in the way of the information, to the point that the user ends up leaving rather than finding out what the site is attempting to convey. Awful. Just awful.
This kind of design has its place but this probably isn't it. I am curious what they've used to achieve the endless scrolling type parallax. A while back I looked for libraries to achieve this and didn't find anything other than fullPage.js which doesn't seem to have an option for this (only full page transitions).
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To me this is a top down problem. VPs and execs should be putting a stop to this. There needs to be a clear product vision from the top for there to be a clear product vision in the middle and bottom. This is what Steve Jobs was so good at. He could just say, this is dumb we aren't doing this. Google needs an exec team that understands products at the consumer level, not the engineering level and sees products as lon…
I'm in full agreement with you. However, it is hard for management to change how the company operates in such a massive way when the shareholders have been nothing but happy with the company's performance. Google have to have left a ton of revenue on the table by giving up on products rather than developing them to be useful and giving their customers confidence that the product they depend on won't be depreciated.