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by varispeed 182 days ago
We need regulators that look after interests of tax payers and not after who pays for regulator's yachts.
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Well I’m not sure if you can regulate having good design and user experience. Certainly the ability to roll back updates and enforcing privacy though.
It is simple. Let user remove any unwanted software and don't install anything new (as in new apps), without user consent.
Yeah, it seems simple

Then companies start quibbling over what software is required for the system to function, so much that the courts give up trying to fight them

Simple: Anything required for the hardware to function must be open source and user replaceable (no signed firmware, or at least a way to turn off signatures or load your own keys).
the “software” is a single unit, the whole TV OS. I don’t think any vendor considers the homescreen of the OS a removable app besides perhaps Android. Certainly not Samsung lol.