Re:Google Pay
by andymcsherry on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:19PM
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I had this TV and just bought a new one for Christmas. To be fair, the TV was released in mid-2010, the YouTube app was supported for over 7 years. Many other apps on the TV still worked when I got rid of it a month ago. There's a lot of valid complaints about smart TV software not being updated, but I think this is a stretch.
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Re:Google Pay
by thinkingemote on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:29PM
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It wouldn't be much of a stretch to follow that line of reasoning and propose that people should never buy smart products ever again. They should instead rent them. maybe that's what Google wants also.
7 years isn't that old for a TV. I'm happy that I've bought a dumb TV, and then have a chromecast which is a small and cheap device that I can easily upgrade.
Re:Google Pay
by andymcsherry on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:09PM
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Looks like the average is about 5 years. It still fell back to being a dumb TV just fine, I had a chromecast and an Apple TV hooked up.
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/playout/2014/07/npd-displaysearch...