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"It's one of the things that doesn't make sense anymore, like cars with manual transmission."

Lost me already. I enjoy manual transmissions. The function they perform which makes sense anymore is being enjoyable.

And I'm allowed to thankyouverymuch. You have confused pointless to you with pointless.

So long as lots of people care about manual transmission, there will be a niche market, but don't expect every car maker / model to be available. Don't see that happening for removal of smart functionality that nobody has to use.

The point is that it doesn’t make as much sense for companies to produce and sell dumb TVs (or manual transmissions), given the economics.

They are not telling consumers what their preferences should be.

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