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I use them for information displays. Our "smart" TVs boot slowly, show dialogs, and then complain that they can't sense the remote near enough to them, requiring a reboot. All in all it's an incredibly frustrating experience for something that should require zero interaction.

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how often are you rebooting TVs for your information displays that this matters? and there are smart tvs with dumb remotes.

So, you say you don’t know why people are upset with these devices, but people are telling you why and you’re just not accepting it. You literally told the other guy that he’s optimizing for the wrong thing, as if his priorities are somehow yours to determine.

It’s totally fine that you have different priorities and values than us, but that doesn’t invalidate ours.

I don't understand because the implication is that you'd use an external device, which would then have the same issues as the TV, no?

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