How Vizio and Google radically reinvented the TV

Matt McRae is fired up about remote controls. Or, more specifically, about getting rid of them. McRae is the chief technology officer of Vizio, a company that sells more TVs — and with them, remotes — than any other company in America. And he thinks remote controls are very, very stupid. "I can’t believe we have rubber buttons and a plastic housing with double-A batteries," he says. "We’re navigating from remotes that were invented in the 1950s. That needs to be dynamited."
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