I think I heard of a door lock that you can text from your cellphone to open it. I don’t know why you couldn’t eventually text your television and other gadgetry.
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Well, not controlling the TV via texts per se, but over in England it’s gotten to where nearly every show on TV has a stupid banner along the bottom portion telling viewers to text their vote on some inane poll, only a pound and a half per vote!
I know we have that here for crap like American Idol, but this was on station after station regardless of what kind of show. And it was at least 4 years ago, so I’m sure it’s gotten worse.
It makes sense for stuff like MTV where you could let people just vote round the clock on what video they want to see next (although that’s got to kill the variety, and I certainly wouldn’t pay for the privilege), but this was like stupid 3 option opinion polls on random stations where they’d show the results and immediately throw up another one, collecting piles of money and permanently wasting a chunk of the screen.
It seems to me that the only type of people who’d do this are the illiterates without the credit for real cell plans who’d rapidly deplete their prepaid. How do you sustain that business model?