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Re:Opening Up the Samsung Q60 Series Smart TV (2019) by grishka on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:33AM (#25943389)
Yeah but it's a potentially perpetual ongoing per-unit cost that the manufacturers will incur for something they sell for a one-time payment. At some point it has to become unprofitable.

There are connected cars but iirc you have to buy a subscription or supply your own sim card to use the online features.

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Re:Opening Up the Samsung Q60 Series Smart TV (2019) by labawi on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:28PM (#25949518)
The connection is there so that they can have a long-lasting income from ads/snooping etc. They can share a bit of the spoils to get the meat.

If specific units are costing them beyond income, they can probably have telcos disconnect them, or just remote-disable the communication.

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