I thought Apple would kill the TV remote…
Looking through Apple’s history, they’ve always brought us new interfaces to interact with new gadgets. Macintosh, mouse. iPod, scroll wheel. iPhone, multi-touch… etc…
I think its just a matter of Apple wanting to innovate faster than web standards body will allow. They did this with Metal when OpenGL/CL was lagging behind in some critical performance improvements. In the case of tvOS, I think the innovation is in the user interaction model. Apple has shown to contribute ideas back to standards bodys though (Vulcan…