David Pierce explores the rise and fall of the Harmony universal remote with guests Nilay Patel, John Higgins, and Nest co-founder Matt Rogers. The story traces the remote's origins as the 'Easy Zapper,' its acquisition by Logitech, and how the shift to smart TVs—and their vastly inferior remotes—ultimately made the Harmony obsolete. It’s a look at a device that promised to simplify the living room but couldn’t survive the integration of streaming into televisions.
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The vision of a single universal remote
Harmony was designed to be the only controller needed for all the devices in your life, eliminating the clutter of multiple remotes.