I don't want to get out my smartphone every time I want to change the channel... besides the fact my phone is usually either in the car or upstairs and the TV is downstairs... I also need to enter my pin code every time I want to use the phone, all in all replacing a remote control with a smartphone just makes things take longer
.... I have the same issue with that "using smartphone to pay instead of your bank card" thing... I am far faster with grabbing my card out of my pocket and putting it in the terminal than having to get my phone, login, go to some app and scan something...
I agree with physical media disks.. (though I would not pay a dime extra for any so called streaming service).. my last two computers didn't have a CDROM/DVD drive anymore.. My TV is linked to my torrent download folder on my computer so I do not have to move anything to watch stuff that is downloaded...