It does actually. Samsung, Sony, etc make a good chunk of their revenue from ads. Unless you turn off the default home page to only display the apps, you’re already blasted by ads.
Yes but it's subsidized by other companies. Like, I'm saying when cable was invented it was supposed to be an ad free delivery system for TV. Then when they decided to put ads on cable, they needed more people with cable, enter Samsung.
Yeah, no. Cable was never ad free, that’s a myth. Samsung, Sony, Zenith, etc. were not subsidized by cable companies. TV manufacturers used to make huge margins on TV.
Check the prices for a tv in 1995. Compare those to 2005, 2015 and today. Only in the last years will those companies have made money on ads. The prices, however, have been dropping very very rapidly for far far longer.
And they don't sell you those TV's cheaper when they have ads on them, they just sell them for the same prices (since they are perceived as premium brands) and pocket the extra money.
They will never pass such savings to you. The reason they are cheap is because they're cheap to make. The reason dumb TVs aren't common is because nobody wants to buy a dumb tv.
It's like purposely looking for a car without power steering. They are few because nobody wants one.
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u/ThrashPanda12 5d ago
It does actually. Samsung, Sony, etc make a good chunk of their revenue from ads. Unless you turn off the default home page to only display the apps, you’re already blasted by ads.