LG Philips & Sharp attempt to standardize Smart TV apps

news article released on: 7 September, 2011

LG, Philips and Sharp are teaming up to create a single framework for developing Smart TV apps. Smart TVs offer a variety of internet connected content options, such as web browsers and clients for streaming services like Netflix Watch Instantly. The idea behind this plan is to attract developers for smart TV apps by making it possible to reuse code across different brands. The three ...

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Do you know what happens when someone tries to make a new standard to replace all the old ones? You get one more competing standard. If these companies wanted a standard they would have done it like that from the start. They want control, and that means proprietary operating systems and a complete lack of standards.

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as long as anyone can develop and distribute the apps without some sort of walled garden censorship committee to please, i am all for it.

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