Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating office space and reducing outside service expenses. The goal here is a major reduction in the year-over-year operating expense growth rate.

  • @bobman@unilem.org
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    82 years ago

    Paid streaming and smart tvs were always a scam to try to get computer-functionality in a TV, but lock it down so you can only serve people garbage.

    If you want to stream something, just stream it for free here: https://fmovies.to/

    All you need is ublock origin. No credit card required. No signups.

    But yeah, everyone jumps to say “x isn’t on y, or z isn’t on t” rather than just share how to watch it all for free.

  • @greenskye@lemm.ee
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    52 years ago

    My only real issue with Roku is the lack of a decent Ethernet port on them. 100mbit ports are too slow for 2023

  • Nusm
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    12 years ago

    Looks like it’s time for me to sell my Roku stock that I bought during the pandemic when their price was constantly going up.

    To be fair, it’s pretty telling that I have a TV with built in Roku, but I only use it to access my Apple TV which is faster and smoother.

  • @dan1101@lemm.ee
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    12 years ago

    I love the Roku remote and interface. But I have a Google TV and even though I’m sure it’s sending my viewing habits to Google it’s also basically and Android device so you can do many more things with it than a Roku. You can’t install anything on a Roku that Roku doesn’t specifically authorize.

  • @peanutdust@lemm.ee
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    12 years ago

    They where only popular bc the other options where also crappy or very expensive. Also I highly doubt anyone bought a roku tv bc it was roku, it’s more like they didnt have a choice.