>“Their market dominance has been ironclad because of their database: they have infrared codes for hundreds of thousands of devices, from brand-name TVs to random HDMI doodads on page fourteen of Amazon. For obvious reasons, they haven’t open-sourced this database.”<p>What stops someone from dumping this database?<p>>Since much of the Harmony software is cloud-based<p>still you could script a comprehensive query to copy everything.<p>Reminder: "Data that is factual has no copyright protection under U.S. law; it is not possible to copyright facts."
Why do er evne need Remotes anymore? Just give me a smartphone app to control my “smart” TV, so I can avoid the hell that is typing out YouTube searches using arrow keys on the remote to navigate individual letters on the screen.