scrubbles comments on Fox Corporation to Acquire Roku for $22B

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is more or less confirming it. Roku's been in a death spiral for a while, and I saw that ads were showing on the home page now.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website [S] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's a shame, I didn't know they were in a death spiral. As far as I know they provide the best "plug into HDMI, get streaming video" product out there and it's not even close.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

Making a good product isn't enough to be successful. Our economic model demands endless growth. It's a shame, but it's how we've allowed society to be structured.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They do sadly, and that's not saying Roku is good, it's saying how terrible everything else is. I now have 2 custom setups at home to avoid it, but I am a fraction of a fraction of their watchers.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website [S] 2 points 4 months ago

I have a stick I use for traveling and it's great, I can throw it in my suitcase it can even connect to most weird hotel wifi that needs passwords or something.

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