This is not how you make a universal remote for the iPhone.
Don’t get us wrong. The ability to use your iPhone as a universal remote is functionality we’re all on board with, but if there’s any one cardinal rule to designing an accessory meant to do just that, it’s this: make it into something you either can’t lose even more easily than your remote, or something so unobtrusive or otherwise helpful that you’ll never really want to take it off your iPhone.
So, for example, this iPhone Universal Remote Case? It has the right idea. Same with the Unity Remote, which was a Bluetooth puck you just put on your coffee table and which would interact with an iPhone remote app to change the channels for you.
What you don’t do is what RyzMedia did with the My TV Remote: make your universal remote accessory an easy-to-lose, obtrusive, ludicrously colored dongle with the sleek design aesthetic of a deflated clown’s nose.
Luckily, actually buying one of RyzMedia’s My TV Remotes is largely an academic problem, as there is no price listed on their homepage, and the “buy” link on their website doesn’t actually work.
