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<h1><a href="." id="site-title"> </a> <a href="./whats-the-point-of-smarttvs.html" id="page-title">What's the point of Smart TVs?</a></h1>
<time datetime="2018-04-01T00:00:00+02:00">Son 01 April 2018</time></header>
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<p>Just bought a new TV, a "smart" one. At the size, the only things
offered were SmartTVs.</p>
<p>Now to get the most out of it, I'd need to give our Wifi password to
it, sigh. Won't happen, for these simple reasons:</p>
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<p>Smart TVs are, software wise, niche devices. With an OS that is
seldom, if at all maintained.</p>
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<p>Connecting unmaintained devices to the Internet is not very
safe. <em>(And the people that know how to keep such things at least
partially safe, seldom enjoy all the firewall setup, but that's a
personal observation.)</em></p>
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<p>The Smart TV supports some, but not all of our usage cases. Again,
it's a nice device, that is proprietary so it has a relative small
selection of apps to run on it, and these are seldom if at all
maintained.</p>
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<p>So to cover everything you need something like an Amazon FireTV
anyways, now if you need that anyways, why use the inferior and
unsafe like the TV's services?</p>
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<p>And that leads to the question, why do manufacturers think that adding
an unloved piece of software to their TVs is a great idea?</p>
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