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| Berni:
--- Quote from: Gary350z on September 12, 2021, 02:09:00 pm ---Quote from: Berni on September 08, 2021, 10:12:14 pm "the various apps like youtube..." Quote from: eti on September 08, 2021, 10:51:30 pm "The "smart" TV manufacturers are NOTORIOUS for abandoning their shitty products..." Several years ago I got an email from Sony saying they will turn off the YouTube app on my fairly new Sony TV on a specific date. That date arrives, and no more YouTube. I paid for that function, and they just delete it. >:( So I had to go buy an external box (which turned out to be better). --- End quote --- Never seen them kill off apps like that, rather frustrating indeed. Tho what i tend to see happen is that the stuff just stops getting updated and eventually apps and similar just become so old that they stop being compatible with the backend servers and just stop working. This is also one of the things that renders old Android phones useless. At some point the never updated OS becomes so old that almost no app can be installed on it due to being deemed incompatible. |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Berni on September 14, 2021, 05:26:25 am ---This is also one of the things that renders old Android phones useless. At some point the never updated OS becomes so old that almost no app can be installed on it due to being deemed incompatible. --- End quote --- If it's not too obscure of a device, there's a good chance XDA will have some usable builds for it. |
| JPortici:
--- Quote from: Berni on September 14, 2021, 05:26:25 am ---Never seen them kill off apps like that, rather frustrating indeed. Tho what i tend to see happen is that the stuff just stops getting updated and eventually apps and similar just become so old that they stop being compatible with the backend servers and just stop working. This is also one of the things that renders old Android phones useless. At some point the never updated OS becomes so old that almost no app can be installed on it due to being deemed incompatible. --- End quote --- panasonic does that, too. As you say the app is not updated, then something changes in the backend and the thing doesn't work anymore (in my case it happened more or less when everything had to go HTTPS - the internal browser stopped working as well, though the thing was rather useless and i already used a chromecast for control and direct stream from PC) I don't blame them 100%, at some point you really want to abandon the old hardware which causes you nothing but headscratches (and for what? taking the android example i look at my apps and i have less than 10 installations on devices with 5.0 or earlier, they were cut off from updates. No complaints so far, the apps work anyway) |
| neil555:
For anyone wanting a large dumb screen with lots of inputs ... https://www.sharpnecdisplays.com/p/eeme/en/products/choice.xhtml?mg=ESSENTIAL&cat=PublicDisplays I've got the older E437Q and it's fantastic :) |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: IDEngineer on September 13, 2021, 09:49:28 pm ---Two recent changes I've seen to ad presentation that are definite pet peeves: 1) They cleverly compose the page such that the "Next Page" button is below an ad which doesn't render to its full size at first. When you move the pointer to click to the next page, the ad suddenly renders which pushes the button down the page, and you end up clicking on the ad. Happens far too often, on far too many different sites, to be an accident. Technically clever but infuriating. 2) Some sites now seem to have a "master" hyperlink that is activated no matter which link on the page is clicked, and of course it takes you to an ad site. Back-arrowing to the original page then lets you click on the actual links. --- End quote --- Speaking of pet peeves: Why the fsck does content on a paid service have any ads at all? Now the advertiser apologists love to say, "you wouldn't have free content without ads, so that is the deal." Then cable TV was introduced. You pay for the service. Yet the service has ads. |
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