Most people's TV show ads nowadays, be it Samsung or a competitor. The thing is, people don't care about ads. They just deal with it. Hence how Samsung gets away with this sh*t.
The fact that this is true feels like we as a society just shrugged and gave up about something like, say, ubiquitous lice or ticks. "Yeah, everyone just has those, all the time."
They care but not enough for "the free market" to generate an ad free competitor that can be trusted to never show ads for the lifetime of the product. Especially because they'd have to charge more for that product.
Government regulation is the only way to stop this.
I've got a fridge that I trust to not show ads for the lifetime of the product, because it doesn't have a screen like that. It's pretty new, too, and fairly nice.
So such competitors exist. I can't imagine that they will cease to exist.
I mean, to be fair, most people’s TVs have shown ads since forever. Granted, those ads were distributed by the broadcaster rather than the TV manufacturers, but the association between TV and ads goes back far enough that it’s just sort of part of the cultural consciousness. I’m not sure that means that people “don’t care about ads”, especially when they are appearing in their homes through channels other than television. It may be that people who normally wouldn’t accept having ads on their devices have a blind spot for TV ads, just because that’s how TV has always been.
gryfft|5 months ago
dragonwriter|5 months ago
fullshark|5 months ago
Government regulation is the only way to stop this.
AnimalMuppet|5 months ago
So such competitors exist. I can't imagine that they will cease to exist.
Jensson|5 months ago
There is no such thing, every big corporation adds greedier and greedier practices over time.
zoky|5 months ago