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Roku CEO predicts LG, Samsung and Vizio will Give Up their Own TV OSes

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, that smartTV makers will ‘eventually’ give up and license operating systems from Roku, Amazon or Google. He sees an …

Streaming is Old at Two

by Andy Marken

Looking down from the top of the Hollywood Hills, it’s impossible to imagine what a beating the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry has taken in recent years. According to many, it’s all been caused …

Omdia: Sharp Drop in 2021 Amazon Alexa Shipments Drove Smart Speaker Market “Correction”

by Artem Alekseenko

A sharp drop in shipments of the Amazon Alexa drove a “correction” in the U.S. smart speaker market in 2021, with sales resuming a more normalized growth rate after record shipments in 2020, according …

Tags:Amazon| Analytics & Tools| Apple| Google

150 million Fire TV devices sold by Amazon

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon said that it and its partners have shipped more than 150 million devices based on the Fire TV OS since 2014. It revealed this in its quarterly earnings statement and …

Tags:Amazon| Automotive| Operating Systems| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

Content is a Small Part of Streaming Leadership

by Andy Marken

Shortly after Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first web site, someone made the profound statement that, “if it’s on the Internet, it should be free!” So, how’s that working out for you? “Head down, …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Netflix| Streaming Video| SVOD

Links Week Ending 4th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in …

Strategy Analytics: Microsoft Breaks into Top Five Tablet Vendors amid Strong Productivity Demand

by Artem Alekseenko

Microsoft cashed in on the need for mobile productivity devices with its massive Surface portfolio refresh and joined the ranks of the top global tablet vendors for the first time ever. Meanwhile, most vendors …

Amazon announced plans to open its first high-tech apparel store

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon is planning to open a high-tech apparel store in California in 2022. The location is The Americana at Brand shopping mall in Glendale and it will be called the Amazon …

Tags:Amazon| Retail

Why Does matter Matter?

by Bob Raikes

We haven’t been covering smart home developments very much on Display Daily, but during CES I saw a number of references to support for ‘Matter’. So I thought I’d investigate to see if it …

Emotn C1 LCD Projector Officially Launches on the Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was a bit surprised to see a new LCD projector from Emotn that was reported to have output of ‘over 8500 lumens’. That would not be surprising except that the …

Tags:Amazon| LED Projectors

Google Could be Impacted by Sonos Patent Judgement

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The US ITC found against Google in a patent case brought by Sonos over its smart speakers, confirming an earlier judgement. The New York Times reported that shipments of Google’s smart …

Echo Growth Slows – Displays Increase Engagement

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Just before we broke for the holiday, Bloomberg reported that it had seen internal documents from Amazon that said that smart speakers are no longer in a growth phase and forecast …

Tags:Amazon| Forecasts| Market Data| Voice Input