I hate TV quite a bit, so I haven't even looked at Roku. But if the google hates it so much, then maybe I'll like it? You know, the enemy of my enemy thing.
(And this is a joke of sorts, not a serious thought worth FP.)
According to the original Axios article [axios.com], the dispute is over the following terms that Roku claims Google is trying to force upon them:
Roku said Google made demands that included requests for preferential treatment of its YouTube TV and YouTube apps.
Specifically, the platform cited four demands from Google that it thought were anticompetitive, including Google's request for Roku to manipulate consumer search results and grant access to data not available to other companies.
Any TV that streams can get a firmware update with more supported codecs.
While this is true. Not all of them are able to play those codecs well. The crop of Roku TVs from 2017 onward, with exception to the 2021 models just released, are all using an ARM Cortex-A53 with very limited onboard RAM. The devices are made to buffer very little, in fact a ton of the OS has to be unloaded to load up YouTube or Netflix, just to give enough room to buffer 10 seconds of 720p on some models. So that means the CPUs have to decode and do it quickly. And as you might have already guessed,
I hate TV quite a bit, so I haven't even looked at Roku. But if the google hates it so much, then maybe I'll like it? You know, the enemy of my enemy thing.
(And this is a joke of sorts, not a serious thought worth FP.)
According to the original Axios article [axios.com], the dispute is over the following terms that Roku claims Google is trying to force upon them:
Then buy a Linux PC and use Bing. Problem solved.
Any TV that streams can get a firmware update with more supported codecs.
While this is true. Not all of them are able to play those codecs well. The crop of Roku TVs from 2017 onward, with exception to the 2021 models just released, are all using an ARM Cortex-A53 with very limited onboard RAM. The devices are made to buffer very little, in fact a ton of the OS has to be unloaded to load up YouTube or Netflix, just to give enough room to buffer 10 seconds of 720p on some models. So that means the CPUs have to decode and do it quickly. And as you might have already guessed,