▲ 192 ▼ Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads (www.engadget.com) submitted 9 months ago by Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 52 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] wiltrvls@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) TVs are so cheap. I don't understand the business model. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] IronBird@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago line must go up, when all other avenues of generating revenue have been cornered the only path left to make line go up is ever more intrusive ads and similar rent-seeking/inshittification. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip [S] 2 points 9 months ago Cheap TVs make for a good business model - more ad revenue for the manufacturers of these pieces of junk. If TVs were more expensive they'd never recover their losses. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago line must go up, when all other avenues of generating revenue have been cornered the only path left to make line go up is ever more intrusive ads and similar rent-seeking/inshittification. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip [S] 2 points 9 months ago Cheap TVs make for a good business model - more ad revenue for the manufacturers of these pieces of junk. If TVs were more expensive they'd never recover their losses. permalink fedilink source parent