Originally Posted by wakey:
“ They are telling you a load of tosh. For starters Sky's announcement stated that both were exclusive to their streaming device platform. ”
“ They are telling you a load of tosh. For starters Sky's announcement stated that both were exclusive to their streaming device platform. ”
Really, a lot of tosh.
I was talking to real people in high positions in those channels, with real names who I am absolutely more confident in them than a person who I have never met such as yourself who I have no idea what you do for a living.
Secondly, whatever you claim Sky said, if they really did tell you this it means nothing. Anyone can claim an exclusive, but that doesn't mean anything... it's just marketing. Apple the other day had a marketing event where everything they claimed was "revolutionary". Was there anything revolutionary?
No.2 If Sky really had an exclusivity, then why are All 4 also found on other devices such as television Smart hubs, the Xbox One, the Roku box etc, with ITV also on Roku and Smart hubs?
Oh... that's right, I remember you're the one with that big Sky conspiracy that claims because Sky has invested in Roku UK, then they somehow control Roku and other devices.
Funny enough Wakey, one of the good things about my job (being a tech journalist), I happen to have a few contacts in the industry and I asked Sky if there was any truth to this at all last week. And their response was No..."There is no truth in this rumour, Roku are able to have whatever they want on their own boxes as there is nothing in any agreement with Sky that prevents or hampers them from doing so."
But, I guess you will want to persist with this conspiracy theory of yours anyway... go ahead...
Originally Posted by wakey:
“And porting to the FireTV is pretty simple from even Android let alone when the apps have already been ported to FireOS as both apps are available on both the Fire Phone and all the Fire Tablets. It's a couple of lines code and potentially some graphic assets. It's a few hours work to make it FireTV compatible. It's not like it's porting an app from iOS to Roku.”
“And porting to the FireTV is pretty simple from even Android let alone when the apps have already been ported to FireOS as both apps are available on both the Fire Phone and all the Fire Tablets. It's a couple of lines code and potentially some graphic assets. It's a few hours work to make it FireTV compatible. It's not like it's porting an app from iOS to Roku.”
Ummm, no its not. It is always much more than just simple. Nothing in this industry is simple. Besides the fact there may be licensing agreements with the content distributers restricting to certain platforms, even if there is a basic few lines of code to change, companies have budgets and resources.
Now, I don't know where you work, but if you work in any large company you must surely see this for yourself.
These companies will create a development program, which will most likely follow a schedule and will not be easy to amend. What their programs are, I have no idea. But I imagine they must follow them strictly to make efficient use of their resources. This is called Project Management.
Some companies will interrupt these roll-out plans when an exciting new platform suddenly appears, but not all. Some companies are more flexible than others. This is the way it goes.





