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Google TV Suffers Setback

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they'll-get-over-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google TV has now been around long enough for the geeks to play around with it. And they have come back with disappointing reviews. While most were excited at the concept of wedlock between the TV and Internet, the marriage itself looks destined to be challenging."

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  1. Geeky devices by devxo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And in other news, Apple TV is selling like hot cakes. It just shows, like always before, that casual people don't really care about the geeky things those devices can offer. The older I get the more I can side with them too - when I was a teenager I had lots of energy and motivation to play around with computers and other technical stuff I had. Then I got a job, a girlfriend, went to travel the world and saw how much you're giving up by spending so much time with that. In the end, it's not really even that interesting.

    Now I also just want devices that work great. I don't really have any desire to play around with them, apart from the occasional configuration to make things smoother for me. But there is a limit for that, and I'm not gonna spend hours and days coding something to accomplish it. This is also why general population will never turn to use Linux if something doesn't change, and can you really blame them?

    1. Re:Geeky devices by Daengbo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      When all the major networks ban your TV product, it's pretty much destined to fail.

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    2. Re:Geeky devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Personally, I just turn to my wife and say, "Honey, who's that guy?"

      He meant when watching TV, not when you come home from work early. -rimshot-