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373 points h2odragon | 2 comments | 19 Oct 24 17:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.437s | source
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rglullis ◴[19 Oct 24 19:05 UTC] No.41889863[source]▶
I am seriously considering creating a dropship company focused exclusively on buying and selling electronic components that are sold for parts and people can assemble them at home, Ikea-style.

I would start with selling 50" and 65" inch "dumb" TVs. Just the panel, a nice enclosure and a board with an IR receiver, TV tuner and HDMI outputs. BYO top box and Soundbar. I wonder how fast it would take to get 10000 orders.

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pixiemaster ◴[19 Oct 24 19:22 UTC] No.41890016[source]▶
please do. but it seems it would be more expensive to produce a tv with less features: https://www.tomsguide.com/features/dumb-tvs-heres-why-you-ca...
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leereeves ◴[19 Oct 24 19:54 UTC] No.41890278[source]▶
"Google pays between $12 and $15 per unit to a manufacturer like TCL or Hisense per TV that uses Google TV."

I'd be willing to pay a $15 premium for a TV that is built to do what I want, not what an advertiser wants.

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1. neilv ◴[19 Oct 24 20:42 UTC] No.41890636[source]▶
As a journalist once said to me, regarding a different topic (local politics in some city), something like: I wasn't surprised that bribes were happening; I was surprised that the bribes were so small.

Similar applies here: incredulous that, in various aspects of the tech industry, customers/users are often being sold out for such small amounts of money.

(Though manufacturing is easier to understand than a lot of software-only businesses, which aren't about cost engineering.)

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2. bee_rider ◴[19 Oct 24 21:22 UTC] No.41890878[source]▶
It sort of makes sense. Like, I’m very bothered by this spyware-industrial system and put a high value on my privacy. But, objectively, I am extremely boring and seeing what I’m looking at is actually worth much less than $15.

It is actually really weird how popular this business model has become (I guess it is a thing because people don’t read the fine print). Invasion of privacy is, I think, extremely asymmetric, so the business model of spying on people is a huge destroyer of value.