On 2018-12-29, nospam wrote:
In article , Roger Blake
wrote:

Some people like to keep things under their own control and retain
a modicum of privacy.

nothing about the cloud prevents that. in fact, encryption is often the
default.

I think SnapChat is encrypted end to end. I don't see the point of being
stuck in the past. I welcome and embrace new technologies. If it does
something I will benefit from, why wouldn't I want it?

I bought 55" LG 4K TV recently, which is running webOS. A TV that has an
OS, and why not? At first I didn't get why they would want to do this.
But if you think about for a second, the TV itself has HDR. At can
automatically sense the video stream with HDR and work with that. And
developers can write apps for the TV. YouTube and NetFlix, Amazon Prime
and others are apps on webOS on my TV.

Let that sink in for a second. I don't need a cable box anymore. The TV
has Amazon Prime and YouTube. Connect the TV to the Internet and watch
YouTube directly. I thought maybe the TV lost the connection with the
Internet and ran SpeedTest from the TV to test for this. Nope, connected
just fine. Check the weather and so on.

On Apple TV to setup the Apple TV I just held my iPhone close to the
Apple TV and the phone setup the TV. With YouTube TV I have unlimited
recordings of everything. Tell it record the World Cup and I have the
world cup on any device that has YouTube. I can just stream it from
anywhere. No data caps at all. Unlimited recordings of ANYTHING on
YouTube TV. Sure beats a TiVo.

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Peter Kozlov