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stumpcity t1_iwrbnmj wrote

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

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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