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HDMI Ethernet was never adopted or implemented on consumer devices.
Source?
It's kind of hard to prove a negative, so I'll reverse the question:
Show me a source / proof that says that a single retail device ever implemented HDMI HEC.
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> most apps don't have any need to access the internet in the first place Citation needed. Looking through my phone the vast majority of third party apps I have installed obviously require internet access: - Social media - Travel (rideshare/airlines/hotels) - Streaming - Finance (credit cards/banks) - Shopping Not counting built-in apps like the calculator I'd estimate 80-90% of the apps I have installed require inte…
I suppose i use a computer for all of this. Do you not get any utility out of your phone beyond being a glorified frontend to a browser? I use it to track my health, to take and organize photos, to document my life in myriad ways, to compose and edit text/video/music, and virtually none of this requires internet beyond icloud syncing/drive.
I do take photos on my phone but I want them automatically backed up to the cloud so I don't lose them if my phone is stolen.
Editing text/video/music I prefer to do on my computer not my phone.
> virtually none of this requires internet beyond icloud syncing/drive.
That's a weird counterargument. "This doesn't require internet except this feature does require internet."
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> most apps don't have any need to access the internet in the first place Citation needed. Looking through my phone the vast majority of third party apps I have installed obviously require internet access: - Social media - Travel (rideshare/airlines/hotels) - Streaming - Finance (credit cards/banks) - Shopping Not counting built-in apps like the calculator I'd estimate 80-90% of the apps I have installed require inte…
It's a selection bias issue. The categories you have listed are essentially web services wrapped in an app shell. Of course they need the internet. Consider these examples: - Photo/Video editors - Snapsheed, Lightroom, Video trimmers etc. - Document readers & scanners - PDF viewers, e-readers, OCR scanners - Note taking - Obsidian - File/Password managers - Authenticators etc. - Single player games - Chess, puzzles e…