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Consoles are a shrinking market. If they were offered money by TV manufacturers to cooperate with putting more ads on it, they most certainly will.

And I suspect Microsoft/Windows will too. Apple might not, though.

In the US

FTFY. The long term outcome for this is that the world stops revolving around the US. For better or for worse

Usually, those are the companies that pay you $$$$$

Someone in our new partner team has scheduled a meeting for 11am today for us to introduce ourselves to each other.

Guess how it’s going to be structured

We’ve tried all of them. Read a history book already!

To be fair, any app written entirely by (human) vendor companies also works like that

Yeah initial setup requires their app (once).

But you can use their app without creating an account, which is such a breath of fresh air compared to everyone else.

https://reolink.com/

Offers all the features Google/Amazon do, but without the subscriptions.

Plus they joined the open home foundation, so they’re unlikely to enshitify.