Roku is ending 2023 red-faced and left ruing the day its executives gloated of dominating one half of the future TV operating system duopoly. This is one prediction Faultline nailed at the beginning of 2023 – that, despite Roku’s reveling, smart TV and connected TV devices were not fated to become a two-pronged fork, a la mobile and PC (not yet anyway). It is fitting then that we close out our final issue of 2023 poised to welcome another new entrant to the TV OS space – with Chinese electronics heavyweight TPV a month away from mounting a challenge to homegrown options including Huawei’s Harmony OS (AOSP-forked) and Zeasn’s Whale OS (Linux-based), which are both targeting emerging markets. As first…