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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal (variety.com)

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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've spent a solid 4 years at Discovery/WBD, working on their video playback engine for all things Android. This includes all of Android TV.

I am still an Android engineer, but all my TV systems are Apple TV. This should tell you everything.

but if it didn't... Google really made the TV experience of Android go to waste. Underpowered hardware, badly written software, all resulting in stuff like sluggishness, UI freezes, apps crashing, not to mention the frequently messed up hardware/software layer (took us 2 years to make Sony admit they messed up like 3 years worth of Bravia TVs...).

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago

am still an Android engineer, but all my TV systems are Apple TV. This should tell you everything.

i run into other cases like that... 'i work on x but use y instead'.

hell, i work in and on windows shit and "smart" devices, but i run linux and have a flip phone.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I've seen maybe a little of that with my shield, but nothing too crippling. I have an apple TV on one system and a shield pro on the other. I still prefer the shield especially because it supports audio bit streaming l, has a superior remote, and for the past couple of weeks I've developed an ethernet issue with the Apple TV that I still haven't fixed. I've had very few issues overall with the shield.