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CES 2022: Samsung Gets Into NFTs and Gaming With Latest TVs

Darn, too bad they didn't add support for The NFT Bay so I could display those 17 terabytes worth of NFTs that are "worth" billions of dollars in sales for free. Oh well, maybe that'll be a feature next year.

Or, I guess I could just download them for free and display them in an album on the Apple TV. Hmm...
 
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Tim Cook Reveals He Owns Cryptocurrency and Has Been 'Interested in It For a While'

Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly for the first time today revealed that he has personally invested in cryptocurrency and that he's been interested in it "for a while." The comments came during Cook's appearance at The New York Times "DealBook" summit, where Cook was questioned on privacy...
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Speaking on the growing popularity of NFTs, Cook says it too is also "interesting" but that it will "take a while to play out in a way that is for the mainstream person."
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The worst part of Tim Cook burning his reputation in that interview was that last year he said publicly that it shouldn't be the job of of the private sector and individuals to create currency, because otherwise there would be economic mayhem just like the era of private currencies in the 19th century and workers enslaved to company scrip.

The way Tim contradicted himself just shows how much Silicon Valley's culture stinks. When they need to be responsible they show one face and whenever an era of irresponsibility and greed arrives they all show another face.
 
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Tim Cook Reveals He Owns Cryptocurrency and Has Been 'Interested in It For a While'

Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly for the first time today revealed that he has personally invested in cryptocurrency and that he's been interested in it "for a while." The comments came during Cook's appearance at The New York Times "DealBook" summit, where Cook was questioned on privacy...
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Speaking on the growing popularity of NFTs, Cook says it too is also "interesting" but that it will "take a while to play out in a way that is for the mainstream person."


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Apple's Eddy Cue Reportedly Advising Tom Brady's New NFT Company

NFL star quarterback Tom Brady is teaming up with entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt to launch a new NFT company called Autograph this spring, and Apple executive Eddy Cue will serve as an advisor to the company, according to CNN. As a Senior Vice President at Apple, Cue oversees many of the...
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If there is a way to make money, no matter how, these guys are on it... any time of the day.
 
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Sigh.

Why am I not surprised that Samsung, the leader in gimmicks, is getting into a scam like NFT’s.

Anyone who understand code knows that NFT’s are a house of cards built on hype and mainstream media hysteria.

Look at how it works, it’s a complete scam!
 
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Amacfa said:
Sigh.

Why am I not surprised that Samsung, the leader in gimmicks, is getting into a scam like NFT’s.

Anyone who understand code knows that NFT’s are a house of cards built on hype and mainstream media hysteria.

Look at how it works, it’s a complete scam!
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* ahem *

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Tim Cook Reveals He Owns Cryptocurrency and Has Been 'Interested in It For a While'

Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly for the first time today revealed that he has personally invested in cryptocurrency and that he's been interested in it "for a while." The comments came during Cook's appearance at The New York Times "DealBook" summit, where Cook was questioned on privacy...
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Speaking on the growing popularity of NFTs, Cook says it too is also "interesting" but that it will "take a while to play out in a way that is for the mainstream person."


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Apple's Eddy Cue Reportedly Advising Tom Brady's New NFT Company

NFL star quarterback Tom Brady is teaming up with entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt to launch a new NFT company called Autograph this spring, and Apple executive Eddy Cue will serve as an advisor to the company, according to CNN. As a Senior Vice President at Apple, Cue oversees many of the...
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Amacfa said:
Sigh.

Why am I not surprised that Samsung, the leader in gimmicks, is getting into a scam like NFT’s.

Anyone who understand code knows that NFT’s are a house of cards built on hype and mainstream media hysteria.

Look at how it works, it’s a complete scam!
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They started putting ADS on the application menu on their TVs last year and people got pi**ed off.

Because company like Facebook have never sincerely apologised for the harm they have done and because crypto people have never owned up or taken responsibility for the massive amount of scamming that they have developed, now other tech companies and game companies see that as a green light to be as greedy, corrupt and irresponsible as possible. When government doesn't do its duty and is taking kickbacks and bribes then this is the **** that happens.
 
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n0va said:
every day i think that NFTs are a passing fad another company tries to embrace it. This sucks
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NFTs, conceptually, could do something useful. NFTs as they are being used now and in this absolute joke of a feature are exactly the same as every other explosive buzzword marketing feature of the past, with the added bonus of being speculative land-grab pseudo-gambling.

Just take a look at 3D home video. 10 years ago, give or take, Netflix was launching 3D streaming, 3D Blu-rays were everywhere, and you couldn't buy a high-end TV it bragging about the latest and greatest 3D support.

Number of 3D TVs available now: essentially zero. Netflix dropped 3D streaming, and I'm pretty sure several of the big studios announced they weren't going to be releasing any more 3D discs either.

In the first half of the 2010s Samsung's high-end TV lineup was packed with 3D buzzwords. By the 2nd half of the 2010s, they didn't sell a single model with 3D.

All of which is to say that big companies embracing fads is part of what makes them fads. These companies are desperate for a buzzword to get ahead of their competitors with and will latch on to absolutely anything.
 
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BrownyQ said:
When I was in school, they taught us the wonder of digital items, such as pictures and files, was that they were infinitely reproducible at virtually no cost.

Honestly surprised it took this long for some genius to find a way to trick people into making digital goods scarce.
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Neither genious nor scarce. The only thing you get with a NFT is the proof that you payed $ 2k for it and that you are the legitimit owner. The other 200 people who also have and use the picture for free are not the real owners.... lol
 
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Kognito said:
Notice on that screenshot how much of the UI is taken up by an ad? It’s like everything else is an afterthought.
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This is what put the nail in the coffin for me with Samsung. I thought their TVs were alright for price, but not buying another product from them again when they waste my screen real-estate, bandwidth, and track more about me throwing ads in where not needed.
 
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Am I crazy for thinking that a tv needs to do one thing, and that’s display video?

I’m concerned that with the introduction of these “smart appliances” basic “non-smart” appliances will be phased out.

I don’t want ads, data mining, accounts, and software updates when I just wanna watch a ****ing movie.
 
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Makosuke said:
NFTs, conceptually, could do something useful.
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I've tried hard and long to think of something useful for them. I've parsed them through every scenario thinkable, but if I keep every scenario in my head for a few days then all the downsides start to pile up and the only outcome is that rich kids would buy them all up with daddy's money or some VC firm backing them up. Then they would own all the best stuff and rent them out to the average gamer and make poor people work for them in cyber space or virtual space or metaverse.

It always ends up being a scam by the rich being forced onto everyone. They bought up everything that exists in the physical world and now they want to be rent seekers in the virtual world because nobody has ever told them to stop being so corrupt and selfish.

So I wasn't surprised to see that nearly all gamers are rebelling against companies pushing crypto and NFTs. There's a real big rebellion going on right now and the media won't cover it because the corporations don't want to listen to the will of the people it would most affect.

 
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JMacHack said:
Tim Cook is a damn good CEO, the Macs are becoming better than ever with the new silicon.
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We aren’t talking about him as a CEO…
I specifically quoted something in particular that you responded to, please go read the original context.
 
Whats next? you want a new feature? Its in the form of an NFT. You cannot use it because you dont own it, you just have a license proving that it exists for you but you can enjoy viewing it. innovation!!!
 
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turbineseaplane said:
We aren’t talking about him as a CEO…
I specifically quoted something in particular that you responded to, please go read the original context.
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Okay, hear me out.

Contradicting yourself in interviews doesn’t make one a con. The world isn’t black and white like that.
 
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Aaaaaaaand STILL no Dolby Vision support! Thanks, but I'll stick with LG.
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This!!!

I love my Q90 QLED but I will almost certainly be buying an LG for my next TV purchase. Samsung started a format war that never needed to exist in the first place.
 
Samsung put ads in their TVs, so I'm out.

Having said that there's nothing wrong with NFT technology, it's just not found a decent use case yet, because the transaction cost is too high. If purchasing the TV came with an NFT that proved I was it's owner, and I could use that to get it back if it was stolen, then that might be a reason to be interested.
 
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