I disagree, the watchman and clones existed into the 2000s and were tech found in several households. Ours ended up with some of the tornado kit so we could get news broadcasts in power outages and other emergencies.
Gimmick/niche isn’t an appropriate description for technology that was superceded by smartphones, even early ones.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So really its:
Because of primitive battery technology, ubiquitous pocket TVs were never a thing.