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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal (variety.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Google TV is the least worst option in terms of open source optionality, Apple TV is best for privacy as is

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Why tf does everyone trust apple for anything? They're a pretty awful company.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Because as of now their main financial structure isnt based on selling personal information for ads. They make most there money selling products and services. And I think trust isn’t the right word. Apple is normally the least shitty out of all the shitty big tech companies with modern day convenience.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Because as of now their main financial structure isnt based on selling personal information for ads.

    Again, how do you know that? Cook gave a gold bar to trump, they're not a good company.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They're the only mainstream hardware company that takes user privacy seriously. Bad on right to repair and openness though

    Why tf does everyone trust apple for anything? They're a pretty awful company.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They’re the only mainstream hardware company that takes user privacy seriously

    Why do you think that? Is that what you've heard or do you know that?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Is Apple TV hardware any good because the app is appallingly bad. Even on a gigabit network connection it will drop connectivity and lag out. If you pause for more than about 1 minute it crashes and kicks you back into the main menu. It never seems to keep track of current shows and just shows a bunch of irrelevant stuff at the top which you have to always scroll past in order to get to what you actually want.

    It makes Amazon TV look like a well polished product.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    The hardware is actually one of the better streaming boxes on the market. Good direct play support for most of the big codecs, so your Jellyfin/Plex server isn’t having to transcode things. And it was (not sure if it still is) one of the few that wasn’t completely riddled with ads.

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