As a long-time[1] customer of Roku I am tentatively extremely pessimistic. I hav... (opens in new tab)

As a long-time[1] customer of Roku I am tentatively extremely pessimistic.I have always been unhappy with Roku's decision to get involved in streaming content at all, because it could potentially cut into their service-agnostic architecture. Bad enough in my mind that they had in-platform ads instead of just charging for hardware, but way worse when they are actively competing with streaming services.And now it looks like it has happened -- a large content provider wants to buy the company, a...