when apple messes up a design like they did the remote, they wait a long time to fix it or else it would be like admitting they made a poorly designed product.
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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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when apple messes up a design like they did the remote, they wait a long time to fix it or else it would be like admitting they made a poorly designed product.
This better not be the same excuse why they make iPhone 13 thicker.
Are we talking about grade school kids here or toddlers? I thought we were talking about toddlers or younger. Older kids should be taught better and know better.
Why not, if it's an issue? Common sense!
the point of a remote is convenience, if you have to get up from your sofa to get it and then put it back in between pressing buttons, it defeats the purpose of a remote.
apple should hire you to do Child Training classes for parents in their apple store classroom.
This isn't rocket science. If you know you're going to be in one area of the apartment, then choose the same location to set it down there. If you're going to be spending time in another section, then choose another location there, etc. Pretty simple. How many ***** times are you changing something with the remote that walking to it would be a burden? LOL!
Good grief people, use some logic! Do you take your Apple TV remote outside your house all over creation? NO. Do you do that with your iPhone? YES.
Uh, obviously I'm talking about when you're NOT going to be using the remote for a while. Duh!
most of the time people lose remotes is during usage. anyway, the problem in this thread is that there is an easy solution that apple clearly had the tech to take care of and your solution is clearly to train the end user to change their lifestyle instead.
Kids defy rocket science. And find incredible ways to lose stuff. Is it still in room? You never know. Great fun searching house for it. Where’s the remote? I don’t know.
Is a living room with a couch the only room that can have an Apple TV in it?
Adding Find My support probably would've been relatively inexpensive, and even if the remote were $5-10 more when sold separately, the previous version was so reviled, they'd still have a robust take rate.
I sometimes get weary of the negativity and Apple-bashing around here, but this seems like a small and novel idea that would've delighted the user base, and Apple really screwed up by not incorporating it IMHO.
i never lose the remote. I just put it back in the same spot when not using it.
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Apple has a good point. Should be attached to smaller things like wedding rings etc.
Obviously you don’t have toddlers with ADHD.
Because then the offspring couldn’t use the remote to operate the Apple TV. Make sense?
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Same here. Or any remote for that matter. Over decades.
And if I did, I wouldn't jump on an internet forum aggrieved with a hyperventalated whine that Apple is not taking care of me and my potential failure to take personal responsibility should I lose a remote.
I'm getting some real "We have a product for them, it's called the xbox 360" vibe from this.
Every app I have...streaming wise...works flawlessly with dual HomePod Minis. Except for Twitch. No idea why. There's no reason why it shouldn't.
Hubris and arrogance have a way of reaping their toll.
So if she's thicker than an TV remote.....then she must be a witch!
(This guy has no children, or they’re teens/adults…)
I once used the “find my” feature to remember where I left my iMac. (long story!). And whatever exec said this definitely doesn’t have young children…