• plz1@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.

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      18 hours ago

      Most consumers want their device to work right out of the box, mapping buttons isn’t something most of the population wants to deal with.

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        16 hours ago

        Don’t give them excuses, mate.

        Map them during initial setup.

        Please choose a service you would like to use and we will help you log in.

        You have x buttons that are available to use as a shortcut to the service. Please press the button you would like to use, or press enter to skip this step.

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          16 hours ago

          But then you have to remember which one is which. The ones in your example are already labelled.

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            16 hours ago

            You work in their marketing department, don’t you?

            The scenario I mentioned would have the buttons simply labeled with a number/letter. 95% of the time I don’t even look on the remote to use a button. Also, if you hit the wrong button, no big deal, you just the other/s.

            Like I mentioned, stop giving them excuses.

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                11 hours ago

                You do realize that we already know the only reason you have them on your remotes is to charge the streaming services a licensing fee for the advertisement. You couldn’t care less about grandma.

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                  6 hours ago

                  Can we stop with accusing people with working for corporations and treating them as representative of that corporation just for the purpose of appealing to emotion and making the other person sound worse? It doesn’t even make much sense. Lemmy is too small for corporations to spend money to astroturf.

                  The only thing you manage to do is make Lemmy more toxic and unappealing to spend time on.

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              8 hours ago

              This is literally what certain manufacturers do. Here’s a side by side of the receiver remote for my setup and the one for the TV (which has never even been connected to the internet). One has these dedicated buttons. The other just has ones labeled for streaming or similar.>!!<

              I’ll add that the location of the buttons makes a significant difference. If they’re easy to hit by accident you’re more likely to have grandma launch a service she didn’t mean to and not know how to back out of it. This causes more problems than it solves.

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              12 hours ago

              There’s a lot of people in this thread who’ve never had to be tech support for elderly relatives.

              Grandma doesn’t know what a streaming is.