I've long suspected this. There's no way that the Pronto is actually worth that much money. It's not even as powerful or intelligent as your average smartphone, yet in some cases it costs half again as much as a smartphone without a carrier contract.

The problem is that there aren't as many alternatives. That's why the one thing I give Harmony remotes credit for is their fairly reasonable prices.

Then again, I've set up a few home theaters for people, and using one of my older Pronto remotes, I've been able to program a $20 Sony remote to do 98% of what people need (including macros), and for everything else they have the original remotes.