I fully agree, but I also doubt that Sony or LG are able to create a good enough OS for the consumer market. (I cringe when I think about the Smart TV OS they u

I fully agree, but I also doubt that Sony or LG are able to create a good enough OS for the consumer market. (I cringe when I think about the Smart TV OS they use on their TVs) Apple can build, own and control every part of their hardware/software. Google could probably too, but they chose a different path to distribute their OS. Edit: I don't mean to say that Sony or LG engineers are not great, it's just that you need to have experience with this type of product to build something that is really great. Sony and LG always built their own software but not on that level as their focus was always more on the hardware side.