Is anyone else concerned that most consumers can't seem to tell the difference between an AndroidTV box, and a box that runs android that you plug into your tv?
I have had to correct folks a few times on the G+ forums for construing the cheap Chinese boxes as AndroidTV. We have also had a few cases in here where people have thought that they have an AndroidTV box when they do not.
Is anyone else annoyed by this? Or am I just being a pedant? In the long run I see it harming the AndroidTV brand and it confuses the hell out of the consumer.
This is a prime example of Apple's success. The "average consumer" is just not very observant to these things. They are very easily confused and are willing to do little to no research beyond what someone at the BB counter tells them. This is the main reason IOS has barely changed since its inception, they don't want to alienate the very customers they won over by the "rock dumb simple" philosophy. I am obviously generalizing here, but there is no doubt this is the most common scenario. This isn't to say these people aren't intelligent, they just are interested in other things. I will say, either way this is frustrating. Mostly because like it or not these same people interface with these devices day in day out.