The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature

Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by yellowapple on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:44PM (#35722247)

It ain't just cars. I can't think of very many people who genuinely enjoy the "smart" aspect of "smart TVs", for example; nearly everyone I know who owns a TV also owns some device that not only does everything the TV's "smarts" can do but does them consistently better and can be trivially replaced should that ever change.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by cdot2 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:54PM (#35722315)

In both cases it's a cost/finance reason. "Smart" TVs can profit from selling customer data and touch screen cars save some cost over tactile interfaces.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by bick_nyers on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:45AM (#35729813)

Everyone always says this, but how much do they actually make per unit sale. I buy $2k+ TVs, are they making $50 off of my data, or $5? Does it even pay for the department they hired to write the software that collects the data?

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by YetAnotherNick on Thursday April 27, 2023 @06:05PM (#35735163)

Same for car. It's hard to imagine manufacturers would care to reduce cost by $5(20 tactile buttons likely costs lesser than that) on a $10k car, but what would I know.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by midoridensha on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:25AM (#35723299)

>I can't think of very many people who genuinely enjoy the "smart" aspect of "smart TVs", for example

Count me in the camp that does. My TV runs GoogleOS (Android), and it's great, because I don't need some other device plugged in to do what I want to do with it. There's only 2 things I want from this thing:

1. Playing external media. It has a USB port, so I can plug in thumb drives and play video files from them. The built-in OS works fine for this, and seems to handle any media file or codec I throw at it.

2. Playing YouTube with a good player. Since it's Android, I can load APKs from wherever I want, and so I installed "SmartTubeNext", which blocks ads and sponsor segments automatically. It works almost too well.

I think the mistake most other people make with smart TVs is that they get ones with crappy proprietary OSes, so with those you have no control over anything and can't run any 3rd-party software like SmartTubeNext. Of course, eventually this model could lose support from the mfgr, causing security issues or not being compatible with the apps I want, but for now it's quite nice.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by te_chris on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:23AM (#35724438)

My smart TV (LG C2) has never and will never touch the internet. Apple TV for all the functionality (and occasionally terreistrial)

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by anthonypasq on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:45AM (#35728936)

im pretty sure nearly every single person in existence wants a tv that connects to the internet dude. people dont want to plug in an hdmi cord to access streaming services.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:18AM (#35729429)

> im pretty sure nearly every single person in existence wants a tv that connects to the internet dude

I'm guessing you've missed every thread here about Smart TVs. ref: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=smart+tv

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by anthonypasq on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:02PM (#35734544)

that must explain why 99.99% of tvs sold are dumb tv's because there is such a clamoring demand for them... oh wait.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:12PM (#35736071)

Because manufacturers sell whatever profit seeking, cost-cutting measures best fatten shareholder dividends. You are exactly right.

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by anthonypasq on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:04PM (#35745676)

you understand people still have to buy things for companies to make them right?

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by yellowapple on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:49PM (#35754619)

You understand companies have to make things for people to buy them right?

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by anthonypasq on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:40AM (#35774378)

are you actually proposing supply side economics right now?

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by fomine3 on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:08AM (#35738754)

Hackers are outlier

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