[deong]

I'm pretty technically savvy, and I almost never want to use my phone as a remote control. Yes, it's almost always with me, but it has to do a lot of stuff. A Roku remote has a big "Netflix" button on it. I press that button. If my phone had a big Netflix button on it, it would be in the way of dealing with Email, texts from my wife, my work calendar, getting the weather, showing me traffic, etc.

I always have my car keys handy too, but if I had to tap out morse code on my key fob to watch a Seinfeld rerun, I'd kill a hobo just to feel something again. A dedicated device is sometimes far preferable than a general one.