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Locutus747 t1_iwqsi3z wrote

Reply to comment by stumpcity in Roku to Lay Off 200 Employees, Cutting Headcount by 7% by MarvelsGrantMan136

Yup band with practically every new tv now having its own streaming apps available there is less and less demand for something like roku

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CptNonsense t1_iwr5dbh wrote

Ahahaha. Most of those TVs are in licensed deals with Roku, dude. Sure, Samsung and LG have their legacy platforms they've had for as long as Roku has existed, but they aren't really maintained for more than a couple years on any single tv nor are they definitely going to get new apps for any new streaming services, even the major ones.

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Locutus747 t1_iwrapwk wrote

No need to laugh or downvote. I didn’t know there were licensed deals. Lots of TVs seem to have android apps as well.

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ankermouse11 t1_iwr0sjq wrote

Yep I personally use a cheap Hisense I bought at Walmart and the TV apps are great, I see no reason to ever use a Roku

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CptNonsense t1_iwr5qkz wrote

Ok, which smart TV implementation does your Hisense use

I'm betting it's Roku. Any Hisense you can walk out of a Walmart with is using Roku for its implementation.

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stumpcity t1_iwr8ki6 wrote

It's actually way closer to 50/50 (or maybe even 60/40 by now) that the Hisense you grab at a Wal-Mart is using GoogleTV/Android TV as its OS, not Roku.

Same with TCL, I believe.

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CptNonsense t1_iwraya2 wrote

I just went to Walmart.com and all of the "in store" Hisenses were Rokus

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stumpcity t1_iwrbnmj wrote

I just went and that's not what I'm seeing. Maybe that's a function of whatever regional differences there are in purchasing practices and stock on hand, but Roku is losing business to Google/Android as the hardware OS for smart tvs, even at Walmart.

Walmart itself is actually becoming fairly well known for their own ONN-branded androidtv box/stick

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CptNonsense t1_iwrbwuj wrote

>Walmart itself is actually becoming fairly well known for their own ONN-branded androidtv box/stick

Like with other in-house smart TV platforms, I wouldn't trust the longevity or adaptability of that

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stumpcity t1_iwrjwv3 wrote

Sure, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about people going into a Walmart and coming out with a TV. The idea put forth was that if you got a TV at Walmart, it had Roku on it, and it turns out that's increasingly not the case, and in fact, a number of folks are going into Walmart to come out with Walmart's own branded streambox

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CptNonsense t1_iwrnqbu wrote

That's not even what we are talking about, no

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stumpcity t1_iwro57b wrote

Lol, what.

The conversation is right there, above us. Its what we're talking about. Its literally how we got here.

It hasn't changed in the hour or so its existed

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CptNonsense t1_iwrqntk wrote

  1. That has nothing to do with what I said about Onn

  2. I was explicitly talking about Hisense and what Walmart reports as in store availability, not every tv they sell

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harpejjist t1_iwrpzh4 wrote

But you are using one because it’s built into the TV

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