• WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    They make more money from those continued sales through their app store and commercials. I’ve heard (on reddit news articles posted to r/technology, so not exactly the most reliable source) more than the profit for the initial sale of the tv because they actually subsidize the initial price and may sell it at a loss to get those ads in your livingroom.

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      7 days ago

      To get them to stop they need to lose both the original sale and the additional advertising revenue. Right now their thinking is:

      • People are buying our TVs
      • Putting advertising on them isn’t causing our sales to drop
      • Therefore it’s costing us next to nothing to do.
      • It often gets us extra revenue if they connect to the internet.
      • If they don’t connect, we still more than covered our costs.

      There is no downside for them. Only upside. The equation needs to change for them to stop doing it.