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Apple Exec: New Apple TV Remote Doesn't Need Find My Because It's Thicker and Harder to Lose
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better upgrade to 2600 sq/ft when you order, or you’re stuck at 2200 sq/ft forever
What a condescending, hypocritical opinion. Cheers for going on "ignore" without me having to read anything else. 👍
I'm working diligently with my therapist on how to better talk to humans, obviously I may have a ways to go. I definitely don't live a lavish lifestyle but with kids it is far from boring. They do know where to put the remote when they're done using it though.
apologist much?
The fact that the face is no longer black makes it way harder to lose IMO. I cannot count how many times, in a dark room, fumbling around blankets and the couch trying to locate my last one because it was impossible to see.
Putting an air tag on a remote is not realistic. Looks like crap anyway you could.
Would have cost next to nothing for Apple to add this feature. I don’t know the cost but come on. Your a 2 trillion dollar company who claims to care about the customer
I lost a vcr remote years ago. Never figured out where it went. Must have gone out in a pizza box.
Kids misplace remotes daily. Sometimes they fall off the table or couch arm.
even a buzzer to help.
there's an illustration of a first generation HomePod on the back of the box. A real head scratcher.
Grownups are fully capable of keeping track of their toys. I havent lost a remote in years, because I keep them in easy reach when using them and put them away when done
the backpack reference is just pretty trite (to be polite). If you can’t keep track of something in your own living room, that’s on you. The airbag on backpack is in case you leave your backpack at school, on the bus, in a restaurant I.e. somewhere outside the home. If you did lose it in your living room, consider cleaning up, it must be a mess
Do you live alone? Sometimes other people, including other adults like spouses, in the house move things..... Do you have pets? Sometimes pets nudge things or knock them to the floor, or even carry them elsewhere.... Do you have kids? Sometimes kids move things... Do you have any form of neurological, physical, or mental health issues that affect memory? Sometimes people have literal medical reasons for misplacing things....
Sounds like you need to sit down and stop judging folks for not, well, being your apparently special self
wonder if it was either a chip shortage issue, and they prioritized handling airtags in their supply chain vs the remotes, or if there was some battery issue or something that they couldnt fix in time and pushed to the next release
I don’t need to track it in find my, I just want to be able to ping it with like a quick button in the control center or something so it makes a sound.
“Remotes have a dedicated place in my home and never get lost, this feature is dumb” yeah but if you’ve ever had toddlers visit, not looking at them for two seconds means the remote suddenly finds its way into the trash can.
“Remotes have a dedicated place in my home and never get lost, this feature is dumb” yeah but if you’ve ever had toddlers visit, not looking at them for two seconds means the remote suddenly finds its way into the trash can.
I don't think they even sell enough of the Apple TV's for them to even care about adding too many new features. I've been playing around with mine the last two days, and it's not even showing some of the HDR content, or recognizing it properly. If you look on your iPhone or computer, of your devices, it's not even showing it listed as an Apple TV 4K device???? (The old one does) So, they definitely have some bugs to work out in the next tvOS release, for a brand new product that was just released... SMH....
You are correct about grownups not losing a remote. I’m 25, my folks are in late 60s-70s. I was never a big TV watcher as a kid. We didn’t misplace the regular remotes.
The Apple TV remove is so small and slick that it gets easily lost from sight when it slips between you and a couch seat. Finding it is as easy as getting up and sometimes grabbing it from the area between couch cushions (remember to be TV remote is too large to slide between couch cushions).
If I occasionally have to get off the couch to figure out if I’m laying on it or it fell under a cushion, it’s too small of a remote. Now throw in a bunch of kids with the attention span of Siri, and that remote will easily become misplaced. I’d like the ability for the remote to play a simple lost sound. I don’t need fancy precise location either.
The first commercial for Air tags showed a man looking for his remote in the couch… this is a baffling Apple statement in the article
That was an unsatisfactory explanation, because the thicker remote still leaves the losted issue unaddressed. Which is why many users wish to have the "find featured implemented". Their reasoning is the remote basically only gets lost between cushions on the sofa, if that were true then of course users wouldn't desire the find feature. A very weak empathetic explanation offered, in my opinion.
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I don’t think engineering, marketing, etc from one product team talk to their equivalents in another team due to secrecy. I guarantee you the person responsible for printing a discontinued HomePod on the Apple TV packaging isn’t the same person that made the choice to discontinue it. The folks responsible for discontinuation probably have no idea about the upcoming eARC feature on Apple TV.
Tim Cook could and should do a better job integrating teams and increasing collaboration between product teams, because based on the ******** flowing from this guys mouth, they’d certainly benefit from sending occasional emails and working on the solution to problems together.
This! It would have been nice to have the option to pay for an upgraded remote. I don't lose things often but I can't say the same for the rest of my family.
I know it's all PR BS but it annoys me when companies try to downplay what can be construed as a design flaw.
In fact, if you keep the remote in your backpack, that will make the remote doubly harder to lose... right? 🤔
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I'm surprised people like the new remote so much.
My summary is:
- Buttons are clickier and feel somewhat "cheaper" (and make more noise)
- Siri button is awfully easy to accidentally invoke now
- Play/Pause got moved - awful decision
- Power button is just a shortcut for previous Sleep function - doesn't allow helping with IR only devices
- Due to the new combo design, the touch area is much smaller - just less enjoyable to use in that way now
- Back (Menu before) should have retained ring around it so your fingers could find it easier by touch
- Edges are too sharp - just not very comfy in hand - I think I'd end up getting a case eventually
Ultimately, it's "different" than the old one, but not really a clear win or better in all areas (at all).
My summary is:
- Buttons are clickier and feel somewhat "cheaper" (and make more noise)
- Siri button is awfully easy to accidentally invoke now
- Play/Pause got moved - awful decision
- Power button is just a shortcut for previous Sleep function - doesn't allow helping with IR only devices
- Due to the new combo design, the touch area is much smaller - just less enjoyable to use in that way now
- Back (Menu before) should have retained ring around it so your fingers could find it easier by touch
- Edges are too sharp - just not very comfy in hand - I think I'd end up getting a case eventually
Ultimately, it's "different" than the old one, but not really a clear win or better in all areas (at all).
More likely Chief Bean Counter Timmy wanted to save 3 cents per device on the remote control. All about those margins.
Joking aside, I genuinely wonder if this is the reason the remote lacks Find My support.
People have enough privacy concerns and reservations about AirTags without stalkers being able to drop a remote into someone's bag and track them.
I wouldn't be worried myself; it seems like they'd have a dialog box alerting people that a remote—not an AirTag—has been found following them. But I imagine that's super weird and ominous for a non-tech person to see. 😂