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The Dongle Is Dead

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The Age of the Dongle

Just 20 years ago, the biggest flat screen t v in your neighborhood might have measured forty inches from corner to corner and cost four thousand dollars. In two thousand seven a company renting out movies on disk by mail called net flicks launched something new, a streaming service. And soon customers were looking for a way to stream on their t v screens without hooking up their computers. Enter the age of the dongl. Just 7 % of time spent on a visio set is spent outside of visio's own operating system. The dongle is dead. No no up tempo. That's it. I feel like we could use some dramatic music right there, jackson.

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