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Looks like Google just lost a large percentage of the entertainment market:

- The large percentage of people who like porn, plus...

- The smaller (but outspoken) percentage of people who don't like to be told what content they're allowed to watch on the devices that they've purchased.

We'll see if the market segment they're trying to attract with this policy (families with children, if I had to guess) will make up for this loss.

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I seriously doubt the correlation between "liking porn" and "refusal to purchase a device that does not have official porn apps, especially considering I could stream porn from my phone or computer to my Chromecast just fine. In fact, if I'm being honest, I never install porn apps, even on devices that allow them, even if I intend on watching porn on them anyway.

The old VHS vs BetaMax might be a study in the subject, but I'm not sure if it's relevant these days.

So... it's like iOS, YouTube, and countless other environments that enable User Generated Content?

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