Why are so many remote controls designed by cretins?

[Zetec-S]

Minor rant, but why do so many companies struggle to design a remote control which is actually practical and relevant to (most) peoples usage? Take our Samsung TV remote as an example, the main buttons we use are the on/off, the volume/mute, and the teeny tiny miniscule pathetic play/pause/fwd/rwd buttons I don't exactly have sausage fingers but can spend ages stabbing away at them in a vague attempt to start or stop a program on Netflix.



Why the fk is half the remote taken up with a massive numerical pad which surely no-one ever uses? Or at the very least, surely someone would think to make the main buttons you need to use for all streaming services just a little bit bigger???

It's not just our TV, so many other things as well. I don't think I ever owned a DVD player which had a remote control with sensibly sized play/pause/fwd buttons either.

Sky might be guilt of a lot of crap, but at least their remote is sensibly designed.

/rant over

[Zetec-S]

Oh, and I appreciate the irony, of all the random pictures online of a Samsung TV remote control I seem to have found the biggest...

[Zetec-S]

Yes, we have one similar to that as well. We tried it but stopped using it, I can't remember exactly why but I vaguely recall there was a function we needed which it couldn't do.