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Saturday, 25 July 2015
Smart Products Aren't
Having trouble with an LG Smart TV: cannot update the built in browser to cooperate as it used to with Google Drive.
Short version: 'Smart' products are not built by or for operating systems like Windows, Android or Apple. They have limited functionality out of the box, and are far harder to optimize than a phone, tablet or computer, or they are impossible to, and the interfaces blow. Better you run your online media from the appropriate device by cable/Wifi-dongle to a dumb TV. This is the experience with my TV, and I have read it similar for cars and other consumer products.
LG customer service has been useless, as all corporations' are. In short, I have discovered we can't load any browsers or apps of our own choice, nor update the ones we have. Who knows if any update automatically?
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