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True. But Apple TV/Apple TV+ are cutting it pretty close.

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But I think that is a temporary thing - I don't think Apple TV is going to be long term product - TVs are too smart now

Do you think they are going to stop making them, or do you see them entering the smart TV market with their own TV?

No they won’t this is a low margin market. They will just offer Apps.

1) Phones were a low margin market. Laptops are the lowest of margins. Desktops too. Apple doesn't care about what the current margin of a market is because it slaps a premium on it to reach the margin its looking for.

2) Apple does not create apps for other platforms as a source of profit. They have never done that. To guess that they would do that now is a gigantic leap in logic.

TVs may be “smart” but they are becomingly increasingly user-hostile with regard to tracking and force-feeding advertisements. I want to have the option of using devices that respects my privacy. Hopefully, I’m not alone and there continues to be a market demand for sudh user-friendly products.

>TVs are too smart now

This is why I’m so reluctant to look into modern TVs. The quality on my mid-range 2014 Sony is pretty average at best by today’s standards, but at least it’s not smart enough to know what I’m watching and has no network connectivity.

This also means I can’t easily control it with a smartphone without something like Logitech Harmony which is just awful in UX, but still… it can’t track what I’m doing on the TV either.

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