Anyone else thinking this is an anti-piracy measure? Google made similar moves to change web browsers to make aure you see ads. I’m sure they’re not happy people keep blocking their ads on android. Ads are their core business model.
Thats the impression that I get.
P. S. I heard somewhere Amazon is moving their fire devices off of android to combat piracy as well.
Fucking Curtis Yarvin everytime… Jfkm
You are right. The lack of true completely functional alternatives is part of the sad state of mobile OS decay we are suffering. I had already abandoned Nova launcher for Lawnchair last year. This entire android ecosystem is just less functional everyday and it’s Google’s design. I don’t have a good solution and it’s quite frankly embarrassing to be defending this OS as a solution anymore. The team over at GrapheneOS seems to be the one of the only teams who haven’t lost the plot. The team over at FUTO has a good thing going (I use the FUTO keyboard). I will continue to support them and their endeavors, I just can’t buy yet another pixel.
The solution is moving to a cabin in the woods with a Nokia 8210. I’m not read for that (yet).
Looking forward to seeing what comes next for them. Nice platform.
I give up. I’m moving to iphone. I’ve been using Android for 16 years and I’m finally tired Boss. There is just too much bad android news stories to count. See you later space cowboys.
Tldr; This article reads like my own particular preferred brand of copium.
Nvidia Tried this with BFG (Big Format gaming Displays) but most of them never made it to market. I think Microcenter carried one model and it was expensive for what you were getting. Back in those days having the nvidia gsync sticker easily double the price of any monitor and making it a ~60" tv wasn’t an exception.
I can’t be the only person who wants display port but I fear this must have to do with the HDMI Forum being the current cable standard mafia and supporting anything other than HDMI is like giving up an inch of the total control they have over the TV industry. They (Sony, Phillips, Toshiba, Hitachi, etc) are effectively colluding against TV buyers and controlling the market and eliminating competition.
With that being said, the USB-C port on these TVs has been around and Ive seen other reviewers show that the high sense implementation is not the panacea (yet) that gamers desire. Its more for like, plugging in your Macbook to your TV.
Still, if this TV came out tomorrow and Wendell from Level1techs said “your Linux pc can get 4k, 120hz, HDR FreeSync out of this” and showed it working, $3500 dollars wouldn’t stop me from buying it.
I met Bob Camp once in Atlantic city. He told me very many strange things about his life as an animator but when I told him that those close-ups haunt me in my dreams he simply laughed and said “Yeah! We call 'em Gross-Ups! It was our favorite thing to make!”