![]() Up until last fall, when Google released its new Chromecast with Google TV - which featured a dedicated remote, familiarly pill-shaped, of course - the only options for controlling your Chromecast were to either hack your TV remote or use the Google Home app on your phone. Let’s start with the good news: If you make frequent use of Google Chrome, you’ve likely already used your phone as a remote. Alas, like most things in 2021, this task, too, proved to be more challenging than I’d realized. Naturally, if given the choice between the lubed-up suppository supplied by these streaming devices or the familiar, angular device that sits in my hand all day anyway, I would much rather use my phone as a remote control. Or whatever it is that has decreed that this generation of remote controls be shaped like engorged bean pods and factory-coated with the spray Clark Griswold coated the bottom of his sled with in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation so that the act of reaching for your remote control becomes an Olympic-level test of grip strength and - after it inevitably slips free from your hand - quick reflexes. As with everything dumb, this seems to stem from a misjudgment of form over function. Actually, I don’t, because I probably would end up wailing incoherently. Who designed the remote control for a Roku? Or an Amazon Fire Stick? Or an Apple TV? Where are they right now? I just want to talk. Photo-Illustration: by Vulture Photo Getty Images
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