This is more or less confirming it. Roku’s been in a death spiral for a while, and I saw that ads were showing on the home page now.
That’s a shame, I didn’t know they were in a death spiral. As far as I know they provide the best “plug into HDMI, get streaming video” product out there and it’s not even close.
They do sadly, and that’s not saying Roku is good, it’s saying how terrible everything else is. I now have 2 custom setups at home to avoid it, but I am a fraction of a fraction of their watchers.
I have a stick I use for traveling and it’s great, I can throw it in my suitcase it can even connect to most weird hotel wifi that needs passwords or something.
Making a good product isn’t enough to be successful. Our economic model demands endless growth. It’s a shame, but it’s how we’ve allowed society to be structured.



