6/13/2023 0 Comments New apple remote![]() The old aluminum Apple Remote weighs 33g, the crummy black Siri Remote weighs 45g, and the new Siri Remote weighs 63g. I think the bottom is mostly solid aluminum. I’ve been using one for the last week, and here’s what I like about it: It’s easily my favorite Apple TV remote ever, and Apple TV has been where I watch the vast majority of my TV for over a decade. Seriously, if you’re an Apple TV user, break out the champagne. I mean, just look at the three of them: the new aluminum Siri Remote looks like the direct successor to the 2012 Apple Remote. The new aluminum Siri Remote that ships with the new 2nd generation Apple TV 4K looks, feels, and acts like the black Siri Remote never happened. I believe some people like to watch movies in dark rooms. It’s black and has no backlighting, which makes it harder to see in the dark. A remote control is something that is supposed to be touched, but Apple chose a surface texture that looks bad as soon as it is touched, unless you wear gloves while watching TV, in which case you won’t be able to use the capacitive trackpad. The glossy bottom half never looks good in real life because it’s a high-gloss surface with (seemingly) no oleophobic coating at all. This pauses whatever is playing or maybe does something else, depending on the current context. It’s easy to click the trackpad inadvertently - especially when picking it up - because the whole top of the remote is clickable. It’s easy to pick up backwards because the buttons are centered. It’s been around for so long - six fucking years - that surely you’ve heard all the complaints about it numerous times. It is offensive, because it’s so clearly a bad design. I never liked that black Siri Remote, but over the years - six! - that I’ve been using it, I’ve grown to truly resent it. Conceptually it really is just like a laptop trackpad - you can swipe around and click to take action. The black Siri Remote also has a button that doesn’t look like a button: the whole top of the remote is a trackpad surface that is clickable. Apple doesn’t even list them as different remotes in their support pages. Apple made one minor tweak when the Apple TV 4K shipped: they put that raised white ring around the Menu button, but otherwise the remote was unchanged. 4th generation Apple TV) and 1st generation Apple TV 4K (20). The despicable black Siri Remote shipped with the Apple TV HD (a.k.a. It’s not obvious from looking at it, but the center of the D-pad ring is a Select button. The old aluminum Apple Remote shipped with the 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TVs (20). (There have only been four, but alas, I can’t find my original white Apple Remote. Here are the last three Apple TV remotes. The New Siri Remote (and Updated Apple TV 4K) Thursday,
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