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Originally Posted by andy_m
I'm not sure I see a significant difference between Virgin making money from the box they rent to me and Samsung making money from the computer they sold to me, but I accept that this is probably the reason why apps isn't being used in the way I think it should be.
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Look at it this way. Samsung don't make any money from you visiting sites on your laptop, and they don't really use the fact you can visit sites and view online video as a selling point (be honest, if the fact that it can play video and view websites is a major selling point for the laptop, it'd be a pretty pathetic laptop).
Tivo (at least) do use the apps as a selling point for the service, and they do earn money from it.
I will say though that Tivo does offer a pretty pathetic range of apps (a lot fewer than Samsung do on their TVs).