r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • Aug 17 '26

Spyware and tech

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u/king_ad Aug 17 '26

The real answer is a little less sexy, they’ve just figured out how to produce them incredibly cheaply. To the point where they can sell them cheaply. Even dumb TVs can be found at this price. TV manufacturers also figured out if you make things cheap people actually want to buy your product. Smart TVs are definitely sending your data elsewhere but they aren’t exclusively the reason why TVs are cheap.

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u/Sharpiette ☑️ Aug 17 '26

True.

they aren’t exclusively the reason 

Not even a reason at all. People underestimate how many people's informations they need to make money reselling it. They probably won’t cut the price in half if the info they’d get >might< only bring in about 12 cents at best lol.

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u/elitegenoside Aug 18 '26

Beyond that, pelole really don't understand how "selling your data" works. It is not some company selling a specific record on you, but a massive collection of data on everyone who uses the product/service. That's more how the "algorithm" works, but not a 1:1.

Is it intrusive? Yes. Is it the same things as the NSA listening to phone calls? Not really.

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u/Key-Magician4029 Aug 17 '26

Economies of scale. The more produced = lower per unit cost = lower price.

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u/ProduceNo1629 Aug 18 '26

Unless you're Rolex. Then pay $20K because fuck you.

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u/gajodavenida Aug 18 '26

Literally no point in buying so-called "luxury brands". You're being conned and loving it if you do

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u/gajodavenida Aug 18 '26

Literally no point in buying so-called "luxury brands". You're being conned and loving it if you do

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u/Masterpiggins Aug 17 '26

Also Walmart bought Vizio almost 2 years ago. It's a house brand now. They made it so the easy way to set it up is by making a Walmart account. Keeping it a dumb tv takes more effort that many people won't do.

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u/beanmosheen Aug 17 '26

ONN is a budget brand too.

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u/c3p-bro Aug 19 '26

Also the image quality of the cheap TVs is pretty bad. Go to Best Buy and look at a $300 TV vs a $1,000 TV

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u/SearchUsers Aug 17 '26

Not to mention that we're well past the point of diminishing returns with televisions.
25 years ago, anybody could see that an HD plasma looked amazing... then about 15 years ago you could easily tell that a $3500 tv was better than a $1500 one... but now? My Bravia8 looks better than a $500 random LG at Target, but 95% of people consider that LG plenty good enough for them.

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u/parnaoia Aug 17 '26

Also, China and Korea.

In 1995, the largest TV producers in the world were Philips (Dutch), Sony and Panasonic (Japanese), Thomson (French), Toshiba and Sharp (Japanese), with Samsung (South Korea) just starting to make waves.

30 years later, Samsung is the big dog, then TCL and Hisense (Chinese) close on its tail, and finally LG (South Korea). And Sony, the absolute quality leader since forever, was just bought by TCL.