So you somehow think that a company has magically figured out how to incorporate reliable universal remote control functions plus HDMI switching at however many resolutions and they can do it all for $59? Now I am questioning your sanity.
Quit looking at this stuff as the end of the world for you and your business. Keep taking care of your clients and ask for recommendations to their friends. Stay busy.
Can you imagine how much less hair I would have if I worried about every new, cheaper thing that has come out over the last 40 years of my electronics career? The sky is not falling.
There is no truth anymore. Only assertions. The internet world has no interest in truth, only vindication for preconceived assumptions.
