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False.
The Facebook Portal TV was, and still is, gorgeous. The voice control is dead, the streaming services removed, the Alexa link dead, but as a video conf device that uses your TV really well, it's a life-changer.
We chat with people on the other Coast weekly, and we get to see people in their living room from ours. We can't go visit, but we can stay in touch.
We paid like $100 each for 4 of these. I'd've paid 5 times that for one with upgradeable assistant access and vanilla open video chat so it's fb free. They're all still running but they tether us to Fb since the zoom was ass.
Edit: downvoting something as cool as the portal TV is bizarre. It really is a stand-out product and I'm sad that its connection to FB ruined its reception.
What's "false" here exactly?
Also at the end you're like you're like "but they force us to keep connected to fb" which sounds very disqualifying for many users here...
Maybe that’s the one tech we should try to bring back with FOSS next