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Remote for Next-Generation Apple TV to Include 'Touch Pad' for Scrolling

MikhailT said:
If it has haptic feedback, you would be able to feel the buttons. Imagine force touch to speed up the fast forward.
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So now I need to charge my remote too? Let me guess, USB-C? :p

Also, heptic feedback won't replace actually feeling where the button is blindly. Heptic feedback can help a fake button feel real, but it won't have coutours and the feel of contrastic materials (aluminum vs plastic). It won't help you know where the pause button is while watching a movie in the dark.

The fast forward force touch trick is cute, but nobody ever complained that pressing thr fast forward button was hard or awkward. Unlike force touch, the real button is predictable and reliable. One press to ff slow, two presses to go fast, amd three presses to go fastest. Press play to play.

I don't mean to imply there are no possible improvements that can be made. The remote today isn't perfect. Scrolling long lists is annoying, text input can be a pain, and the menu button and center button behaviors are unpredictable. I just don't think touch is the right improvement, and indeed it is the wrong one. Text can be fixed with a mic and speech-to-text, for example.
 
A new Apple remote would be nice. I'd buy one for use with my iMac.
Still this is a sketchy rumour at best. I'll wait for part leaks before I consider this being an actual possibility.
 
I wonder how they are putting swipe controls on the watch app. As far as I know currently it's only able to do the default action of moving back and forth between pages.
 
Search without needing a keyboard, iPhone or iPad baked into the OS or it's a fail to me.
 
The remote isn't a big deal to me as I prefer to use my Harmony Home Control remote. I just want a new ATV box and the new subscription service. Hopefully they have better channels than Sling.
 
While the Apple TV needs a new remote controller pretty badly, it's dying for a User Interface overhaul. The existing OS and the design of the software totally absolutely completely and utterly sucks. I hate it.

Please :apple:
 
Actually, if the next Apple TV has Siri incorporated, you won't need a silly remote anymore.
 
AnsonX10 said:
Why not just convert the circle to a click wheel? It'd be perfect.

I love the click wheel. You can scroll indefinitely, and as fast as you want; something you can't do on "touch pads."
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Touch for the sake of it. Click wheel from iPods is (was) more intuitive and functional.
 
What about this?
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Please drop line of site for the remote!!!

How does a tech company like Apple still produce a remote that relies on line of site?
 
It's pretty ridiculous that in order to search for something on Apple TV, the remote can only shuttle the cursor around one letter at a time using direction keys.

Extremely hokey when you're sitting there with an iPhone or worse, iPad, and Apple has every ability to make a decent, full featured Remote app to interface with the Apple TV, but won't do it.

Apparently that would be too useful, or ?
 
Still need three remotes

They can redesign the remote all they want but the real problem is still the fact that it takes me three remotes to use my Apple TV.

I need the TV remote to switch inputs from TV to the Apple TV, the Apple TV remote to control the content I want to watch, and my cable/TV remote to adjust the volume.

Maybe they've come up with some kind of super remote than control all my AV equipment but I kind of doubt it. And learning/smart remotes still require a PHD to figure out how to set up and configure them not to mention how expensive they are.
 
If the remote has a touchpad then that means that it'll be bluetooth right? Touchpads over IR just... don't work do they?

I'm going to be really excited to see one with a bluetooth remote finally, but unless the next apple TV keeps an existing IR sensor and just doesn't use it then I imagine the universal remote crowd might be a little upset.
 
Does anybody remember the rumor about the Apple Magic Wand remote?
In the back of my mind I've been kind of hoping the Apple TV OS is purposely half baked because Apple is saving a better interface for when the actual television comes out. That sounds kind of stupid now that I say it, but some things about Apple TV are just really sub par for Apple.
 
misterberry said:
The remote did see one redesign from white plastic to the current aluminum one.
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You are forgetting one remote.

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I remember a family member got one with his black Power Mac back in the day. It was an all in one CRT mac with a black plastic case. I forget which model it was though. As it was one of the only all in ones back in the day to have a black case.
 
christarp said:
If the remote has a touchpad then that means that it'll be bluetooth right? Touchpads over IR just... don't work do they?.
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If the next ATV doesn't have a non-line-of-sight remote of some kind I'm DONe with Apple TV. Overall I love the thing, but the remote is the biggest piece of crap I've ever used, it's brutal. It's not so much the design, it's the fact that like 75% of the time it just doesn't work. I have to stand up and lean towards the tv and point it exactly right at the box to get it to acknowledge actions, and even then it's flakey. When doing fast forward or rewind actions I oven way overshoot because it didn't get the play command. Just horribly unresponsive.
 
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