pennsy484 posted:I actually like the remotes, having the tactile feedback of the buttons, wheels, and especially the cab2's quilling slider, and I am really not pleased with the what sounds to me like a seeming inevitability of a move by MTH and Lionel away from even making the remote handhelds in favor of the use of phones and other devices instead. But, in my opinion, if you are a toy train maker, it seems to be a no brainer to get bluetooth involved in your trains in this day and age.
You are not alone but this is one less piece of hardware that they have to make that can become outdated from the time it's conceived to the time it's produced. I personally am in the dedicated remote camp but can see why they would go the App route. Upgrades, features, and graphical interfaces are a lot easier to accomplish with a software platform using someone else's hardware. Let Apple, Samsung, and others build the hardware.
