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Re:Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with Y... by bgorman on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:48AM (#28946230)
100 dollars certainly covers the cost of the hardware. These streaming devices use commodity chips and run Linux. This isn’t a crazy R&D project. The only real value-add from Roku is the software.
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Re:Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with Y... by nitrogen on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:54AM (#28946346)
Yeah, embedded hardware is really cheap at scale, even with 4K video decoding.
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