Google TV is Coming – Android TV Fans Are Outraged

Social media and TV-Box owners are embroiled in a serious scandal. In short, the problem is that switching from Android TV to Google TV turns a smart TV into a dumb one. In the full sense of these words.

Google TV instead of Android TV – what will it be like

The software replacement will occur through a firmware update for the TV. This firmware will be downloaded automatically. Google has already launched an update service for Sony and TCL TVs.

After installing Google TV instead of Android TV, all applications will disappear from the system (TV, not TV-Box). Even Google Assistant. Only the interface for managing broadcast and satellite TV and the ability to work with external devices will remain.

All of this can be “rolled back” if desired. There is a special menu where you can select the appropriate command. To restore all settings (and delete everything again), you need to reset the TV to factory settings.

What Android TV fans are unhappy with

It may seem that people who love tinkering with device settings and applications are simply upset that Google will turn the TV into a monitor. For a user who has a media player, all this fuss with Google TV and Android TV will go unnoticed. But owners of TVs using streaming services (YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, etc.) will lose all benefits.

And there is some logic to this. It turns out that all these complaints online are justified. Not every home has a TV-Box. And note that the company explains the promotion of “Google TV instead of Android TV” by the imperfection of internet connection. That is, with poor connectivity, all smart functions become useless and need to be removed. It sounds silly.

Most likely, Google just wants to remove everything to sell and profit later. But it doesn’t delete everything completely — just in case users start protesting. Everything can be quickly restored. But if there is silence in the air, very soon all TV owners (without set-top boxes) will be paying bribes to Google.