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> WebOS was the intersection of Android's hack-ability and iOS's usability

It may have been... I can tell you that in current LG TVs usability is poor. I'm not sure about hack-ability in TVs, this may not apply

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lg web os is a nightmare, i wish i had read up on it before i bought the last lg tv. laggy and missing so many apps. ended up buying a cheap android streaming box as the webos is cluttered with so much crap I won't use but missing things I use on other tvs

I explicitly bought a LG TV with Web OS, because having some Android dev experience I don't want to put myself to Android TV.

can I ask what put you off it? I mainly go with android for the apps and sideloading I can't sideload on the LG webos tv I have but can on all three android tvs. media streaming apps on LG webos feel very poorly optimised with the amount of "restarting to recover memory" I get watching youtube/amazon/netflix/stan/etc. even after cleaning cache/reinstalling/resetting/factory resetting the device it happens within 48 hours. most of the useful apps i have on the android tvs are not ported and if they are considering it they seem to be so far down the list of priorities for the devs, they may as well say no. PS, i don't have any love for android and if i am using webos wrong or missing something obvious i would love to know

For me Android is just another OS, I don't really care for its FOSS roots.

Android TV is always catching up with Android versions, for several times its future seemed to follow the same footsteps as Brillo, Android Things, ADK, Tango, Sphere, Daydream, Sceneform, wearOS,....

And then there is the whole update story which is even more catastrophic than on phones.

So if I had to buy a smart TV, at least one from the vendor that owns the OS.

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