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Roku leaves the smart front door to concentrate on the couch
· New York time
Roku plans to stop selling smart home devices, including video doorbells and its home monitoring system, and refocus on streaming. The decision narrows the company's ambitions in connected household products. A streaming platform has an obvious reason to occupy the television. A doorbell or monitoring system asks customers to bring the same company into a different part of the home, where the competition and the expectations are different. Roku is choosing to focus on entertainment rather than sell more ways to monitor the house. The company has apparently decided that watching what is on the screen is enough watching for one business.
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