Why has no one in the remote control business learned anything from Apple?

It will never change. I had a chance to interact with the new Samsung "SMART" TV. You've seen nothing yet.

Mother of God.

How could they make watching television so complicated???

But it's not the television... it's unified content consumption platform, which, for some reason, need to look like the out of wedlock child of iPhone and Android.

I think some visionary there told the engineers: "We need to make an "iPhone" of televisions". They've made it happen.

BTW this thing also support voice commands and hand gestures...

Geez, is there anything it cannot do?

Android devices can do anything, but should they?