Roku TV Is No. 1 Selling Smart TV Operating System (OS) in U.S. and Canada
Saturday, January 9, 2021 10:07AM IST (4:37AM GMT)
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Roku, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROKU) today announced that Roku® OS was the No. 1 smart TV OS sold in the U.S. and Canada according to NPD’s Weekly Retail Tracking Service. Roku TV™ held 38% of market share in the US and 31% in Canada, based on available data from January 5 through December 26, 2020, maintaining the lead spot in both regions. In North America, millions of Roku TV models were sold across thousands of retail stores offering consumers hundreds of models to choose from in a range of sizes and picture quality options from 24-inch HD to 75-inch 4K HDR models.
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Expands Roku TV Ready Program Further in U.S. and to International Markets
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Roku, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROKU) today announced that Roku® OS was the No. 1 smart TV OS sold in the U.S. and Canada according to NPD’s Weekly Retail Tracking Service. Roku TV™ held 38% of market share in the US and 31% in Canada, based on available data from January 5 through December 26, 2020, maintaining the lead spot in both regions. In North America, millions of Roku TV models were sold across thousands of retail stores offering consumers hundreds of models to choose from in a range of sizes and picture quality options from 24-inch HD to 75-inch 4K HDR models.
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Google shutters its Android Things smart home operating system
The system will shut down entirely in January 2022
Google has decided to shutter the Android Things operating system it launched to run smart home hardware.
This OS was the final version of Google Brillo, which first released all the way back in 2015
. This system aimed to provide underlying architecture that manufacturers could use to update devices that feature Google Assistant integration.
This means that manufacturers are going to have to find another way to develop Google Assistant-enabled speakers and smart displays.
Google’s developer support site says that “The commercial hardware SoMs from NXP, Qualcomm, and MediaTek are only available to specific OEM partners building smart speakers and smart displays.” SoM stands for system on module.