Prompt for a login or to check for updates on every start or once a week. It wouldn’t be difficult to get the numbers up for the number of online devices.
What would be the monthly cost per unit to LG for servicing those cell modems? Data-only, and I presume they could get some kind of bulk discount as a big manufacturer.
the alternative is they'll develop some common mesh local network that'll grab data through any gateway. Imagine your tv connecting to some wireless headphones which have multipoint feature enabled and connected to a smartphone which has wifi, tv sends encrypted data to buds, buds to phone and phone to some external source. Ofc it can be more sophisticated but totally doable and plausible.
Or imagine some localized automesh based on zigbee/matter-> you have a philips hue lamp connected to wifi, tv connects to it and it forwards data... I totally believe this will be the next development of ad networks and sold as 'better smart home devices'. And it'll not require any LTE. Or it can have LTE only on some subset of devices while others will use that as gateway.
probably a couple of dollars a month, which would be very tough to actually make work. Even facebook only makes a few hundred dollars a year per person in the US.
Prompt for a login or to check for updates on every start or once a week. It wouldn’t be difficult to get the numbers up for the number of online devices.
Similar to Windows 11 force you to login with Microsoft Account during install?
ship a cell phone in every TV
What would be the monthly cost per unit to LG for servicing those cell modems? Data-only, and I presume they could get some kind of bulk discount as a big manufacturer.
the alternative is they'll develop some common mesh local network that'll grab data through any gateway. Imagine your tv connecting to some wireless headphones which have multipoint feature enabled and connected to a smartphone which has wifi, tv sends encrypted data to buds, buds to phone and phone to some external source. Ofc it can be more sophisticated but totally doable and plausible.
Or imagine some localized automesh based on zigbee/matter-> you have a philips hue lamp connected to wifi, tv connects to it and it forwards data... I totally believe this will be the next development of ad networks and sold as 'better smart home devices'. And it'll not require any LTE. Or it can have LTE only on some subset of devices while others will use that as gateway.
probably a couple of dollars a month, which would be very tough to actually make work. Even facebook only makes a few hundred dollars a year per person in the US.
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