Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.

ALostInquirer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, because your smartphone needs internet, tv signals reach way more places, and more reliably.

  Especially since broadcast tv, in America ya damn Limeys, is free, while internet is either very localized (WiFi, etc…) which may or may not be free, or wide spread (Cell phones, Satellites, etc…) which are definitely pay.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do they?

    I can watch my local TV channels from the other side of the planet. I don’t think the signal reaches that far.

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    • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With internet

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your point?

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• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know it’s semantics, but if your great-gramps would time travel to today, he would ask about your pocket TV, and you would reply nah, it’s a smartphone

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is actually not smartphone, but a general purpose computer with cell internet connection that can be used for many things, one of those is actually calling.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or, I would reply yes, totally. It’s called a smart phone, and load up the literal television app called YouTube TV

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