| ▲ | dd8601fn 7 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
The margin on tvs is slim. Companies like Vizio make vastly more on the ads and data than they do on the tvs. Some quarters they even take a loss. They took a $7m bath on hardware while booking about $120m on ads and data. We’re never getting good tv’s back. It’s only going to get worse. Now they’re starting in on monitors. The only lifeline would be consumer protection, which obviously won’t happen in the US. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hdgvhicv 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
So they shouldn’t bother selling the TVs at all? When they spend 400 on a tv and sell it for 410 and sell the data for 40 it doesn’t mean the data makes 4 times as much as the tv. The cost of gathering that data is still 400, they have nothing to sell without spending 409 in the hardware. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | nottorp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> Some quarters they even take a loss. They have good accountants isn’t it? | |||||||||||||||||