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Devil's advocate: Given how many old TVs there are out there that are still working and have dedicated buttons for long-dead streaming services, is this really that a big of a deal? The moral of the story is don't put dedicated buttons that go to services you don't control on your products. But that'll never happen...
You think of old TVs as smart TVs with buttons for dead streaming services
I think of old TVs as CRTs
We are not the same
Yeah I was like, old TV’s didnt have buttons for streaming services…
Look, I get it; I'm 36. But I've also come to terms with the fact that 1990 was not actually 10 years ago. Smart TVs have been around for long enough now that old ones can exist. Especially given how much faster the tech is evolving now.
My last TV from 2020 only lasted 2 years before I sold it and got a newer set. The old one couldn't even hit 120Hz @ 4K; it could only do it at 1440p. So when I built a new gaming PC, I had to get rid of it just to be able to play at my TVs native resolution and refresh rate. And don't even get me started on how much better and more affordable OLED is now compared to inferior display tech like IPS and VA. Just four years ago they would have been out of my budget. Which proves my point that TV tech evolves much more quickly than it used to.
There aren’t dedicated Twitter buttons on controllers. The screenshot button will continue to work, you just can’t share to Twitter anymore.
Those streaming services pay the tv/streaming box companies for those dedicated buttons. You wouldn’t believe how much Roku makes just from that.
One difference being that Twitter is not (technically) dead - Nintendo Is removing support for a service that continues to exist, presumably because they don't want to be associated with it.
Had nothing to do with association, unfortunately:
https://gameranx.com/updates/id/497782/article/nintendo-joins-playstation-and-xbox-in-dropping-twitter-integration/
This should be top comment.
Thanks! Thank god Twitter is so dead set on killing itself it doesn't even need people or companies to make even the simplest moral decisions to leave it.