> if people really cared the market should react to it and have products to cater to those needs I think the current incentive has warped the market beyond rep

> if people really cared the market should react to it and have products to cater to those needs I think the current incentive has warped the market beyond repair for certain products. Take TV for example, non-smart TVs cost the same or more than smart TVs because manufacturers can subsidise smart TVs’ cost by selling or utilising data. Not to mention other “benefits” like locking consumers into their ecosystem: a lot of Korean newly weds buy all Samsung or all LG for electronics for this reason. With all these incentives, it makes sense for the companies to only make smart TVs. We need regulations to offset these incentives. There most be a real tangible cost to collecting data and appliances should be required to use open protocols. Then it will make more sense for manufacturers to make just normal TVs that can compete with smart TV. Will any of this happen? Probably not.