Podcast #1036: What's Next for Google TV and Smart Homes in 2022

On today's show we look at what's next for Google TV and look at what the "Smart home" of 2022 will look like. We also read your emails and look at the news of the week.  What's next for Google TV Google's living room strategy appears to be working: The company revealed at CES last week that there are now 110 million monthly active Android TV devices in the world. Thirty million of these have been added since last May alone, and a growing number are using the company's new Google TV interface, with TCL revealing at the trade show that it is now selling 10 million TV sets with the Google TV UI a year. So where does Google go from here?  Brave new home: 2022 will be remembered for how it redefined the smart home 2022 may well mark a final step toward incarnation for the smart home: Millions of people have been driven into their homes during the pandemic; millions more have begun building new homes according to the emergent needs of a world rewritten by COVID; average internet speeds can finally support connected homes, and those speeds will only continue to climb; a new communication protocol might finally unite a historically siloed industry; and, perhaps most importantly, people are more tech-literate, more tech-interested and readier to live in smart homes than ever before. Full article here…