Sophisticated Trends and critical realities within the Smart TVs industry.

 From a set of practical difficulties, henceforth smart TVs are set to become an important category of consumer electronic device, and can become hubs of content/service/advertising ecosystems.

Within this nascent market Connectikpeople.co, can observe that, several vendors in future would base their smart TVs on operating systems (OS) that started life in smartphones.

 LG will be using WebOS; Samsung will be using Tizen; Panasonic will be using Firefox OS; and Sony and Google will use Android TV.

TV sets are not as suitable or useful for some types of app, such as navigation, communication and personal productivity.

The market size is reduced by the fact that TV sets are typically replaced less often than smartphones.

Substantial and important ecosystems will develop on smart TVs, especially in the area of entertainment services. 

The screen through which smart TV apps and services are accessed will be valuable to the company that controls it, because it gathers an audience for advertising, because it gives the owner a position of power in the content/services distribution chain, and because it enables usage data to be gathered and analysed.

Most of the big smart TV makers are Asian companies. 

WebOS, Tizen and Firefox, the re-purposed OS have the following advantages: they have a mature code base; they don’t need much new investment.

Firefox OS is less unambiguously commercial than Google and less clearly positioned to dominate an ecosystem founded on its OS.

The idea of an OS based entirely on Web technologies like Firefox OS is unproven in the mass market.

Sony and Google are going with Andoid TV for their smart TVs.