Hello.I'm the OP and after having used the remote control for a few months I thought I'd report of an irritating behaviour of the remote control.....
The good thing is that both the new aluminium remote and my "One for all" universal remote works great with my 13" Macbook Pro (mid-2012).
I can't remember if I pointed the Apple remote against the universal remote to read its various codes, or if I looked up the specific brand-name codes, but in any case the universal remote behaves exactly like the Apple aluminium remote now, so in case I lose/misplace one I can reach for the other one
Getting back to the irritating problem: I've noticed that sometimes the remotes all of a sudden stop working! When this happens neither of the two remotes work (indicating to me that the problem is unlikely with the remotes but rather the receiving end which is the computer).
I've noticed that it doesn't help to bring the remote(s) closer to the computer, but that rebooting makes everything work again (or was it a simple user-logout and login again?).
Last time it happened I was watching a video from a playlist within iTunes and it worked fine, but after a while (can't remember how long) I needed to rewind but I got no response, so I moved the controls the usual way (using the trackpad) on the computer instead.
So I continued watching the rest of the movie (and didn't need to pause/rewind any more, and actually fogot about the remote control issues), and when the movie was done the next movie in the playlist started playing, and when I pressed the remote's pause button it paused! So the remote control was working again.
So.... is there some sort of sleep function for the remote which could have been activated? And it gets reset when a new item in iTunes starts playing?
Does anyone else recognize the same type of behaviour on their Mac?
I have the same problem, did you find a solution?