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Friendly, people-focused developer looking for a new opportunity with interesting people. Self-driven, detail focused. High tolerance for weirdness and non-standard environments. Writes documentation.
Previous experience includes firmware and API for high speed cameras; indie games; triple-a game development; and some web stuff.
Folks keep saying this, but I can’t find a reference to this actually happening. There is no way that current wireless connectivity can be cost effective to deploy at the scale of consumer televisions.
I think the average number of active cellphones per person and sometimes-used TVs per person are both about 0.8. Where do you live that there are orders of magnitude more TVs than cellphones?
It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars to certify an LTE/5g device. Not the chipset, but the entire device. Then, the per part cost of adding LTE chipsets that won’t be used on the majority of devices, since they’ll be connected to consumer internet. Finally, there is a fixed service cost that is not trivial per device per month per kb, usually.
Each stage of design cuts into the already razor thin margins. And for what? To get data on a few people that don’t connect their tv to the internet?
integrate an off-the-shelf 2G modem chip that's been certified for decades and cut a deal with a cellular carrier to only charge you per kb instead of per month like vending machine companies do
> This is why we've started integrating SIM chips into TVs.
WiFi chips plus a deal with one of the big ISPs that already uses customer-site equipment to provide their own hotspot network app would be more economical and cover most urban and many suburban areas quite well.
So, let's say you didn't want to buy my cheap TV. Market's full of TVs. Hardly a trouble to pick another brand, eh? I just give the consumer what they want, and what they want is a cheap TV. We show ads, that's why the TV's cheap. Best way we've found to cheapen a TV. Don't want ads? Don't buy the cheap TV. And yet, people buy the cheap TV and complain about the ads. We're not responsible for your choice, we just gave you what you voted for with your wallet.
> We're not responsible for your choice, we just gave you what you voted for with your wallet.
you are assuming people make their TV-buying choice with complete information
does the cheap TV have a big "NEW! SHOWS EXTRA ADS!" announcement on the outside of the box, or in any of its promotional material? no, of course not.
also: "Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV" means they didn't use to do this. people bought these TVs not knowing they would receive an update to show ads at some point in the future.
this free-market "consumers made an informed decision about the trade-offs of a cheaper TV" argument is absolute hogwash.
This is kind of unfair given TVs are usually kept for a very long time. You buy the TV, didn’t understand why the price was cheaper than competitors, and a year later regret your decision. It’s not really feasible for most consumers to get a new TV at that point.
Mm, over the years, I've known some people who were legitimately kinda dumb. One learned, at the tender age of 27, that flamingos weren't mythical a la dragons. On the other hand, I've known some people who were absolutely brilliant.
You might as well argue everyone can run the same speed for the same amount of time. If you haven't observed this yourself, I would think you've probably just travelled through life in very homogeneous social circles.
> One learned, at the tender age of 27, that flamingos weren't mythical a la dragons.
Ignorance is different from intelligence. For example, it's highly unlikely Aristotle knew what maize was. That doesn't make him stupid. Just ignorant of certain things that he hadn't experienced.
So, uh, I'm now one of the leads of Frogatto and boy howdy could I use a job too after a recent mass staff reduction at my day job.
edit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-roberts-b9410654/
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