Monitors should never be “smart”. They have exactly one purpose and that is to display the video signal connected to them. If it starts displaying ads on top of that video signal, then it’s unable to serve it’s one purpose and it belongs in the dumpster.
The same could be said for TVs. “Why does the TV need apps if I’m just gonna connect an Apple TV box to it?”
Because someone thought that people would like a TV where the functionality of an Apple TV box is built in, so you wouldn’t need one. And on paper, that indeed would be pretty neat.
Then inevitably, capitalism happened and enshittified that idea in a heartbeat.
Stage 1: You pay for it, it is the product
Stage 2: It is free, you are the product (enshittification)
Stage 3: You pay for it, you are the product (late-stage enshittification)
Smart monitors are for dumb people.
Does this affect people on modern platforms (Mac/Linux) or just Windows? This is the kind of thing that is making Windows get left behind.
I’m just imagining dealing with a fucking ad on my monitor when I’m trying to resolve a sev one outage.
