“Apple is at work on a new iOS remote app that will fully replicate the functions of the Siri Remote bundled with the fourth-generation Apple TV, according to the company’s senior VP of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue,” Roger Fingas reports for AppleInsider.
“The app should arrive ‘in the first half of next year,’ Cue said in a BuzzFeed News interview,” Fingas reports. “He didn’t elaborate on details, but full functionality would imply being able to trigger the Apple TV’s voice commands for search and playback.”
Fingas reports, “Tuesday’s release of tvOS 9.1 enabled support for the existing Remote app.”
Read more in the full article here.
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For a gazillion dollar company, you think they would have enough people to create such an app before releasing the ATV4.
Just surprised he said all this with a Straight face. Not sure whether to laugh or cry at his lack of self awareness of his own apparent shortcomings, or otherwise of those around him. It reeks of complacency.
I’m happy to hear there will be a new remote app.
I know everyone was complaining about the old remote app not being available for the New Apple TV, but to be honest the old app sucks. I did install it last night and it is certainly nice to have keyboard input, but the app is pretty bad.
I welcome a new app made exclusively for the New Apple TV along with support for an actual Bluetooth keyboard.
I also don’t mind being an early adopter. I’d rather have fun struggling with the New Apple TV and enjoying the improvements as it evolves as opposed to buying it in a year from now as a mature product.
Siri search on Apple Music was fun to use last night as well. It was strange I found myself searching for and finding music that I normally would have found with a text search. Ie. Play the oldest or newest album of a given band.
I noticed today that Apple has updated the Remote app to now work with Apple TV 4th generation, providing the same functions as it had with Apple TV 3rd generation.
That’s a step forward. What a ridiculous shame they didn’t bother to have this ready when Apple TV 4 was shipped.
The app should arrive ‘in the first half of next year
Apple’s priorities are a mess at this point. Or maybe they’re incapable of providing decent software within a decent period of time. Waiting until potentially next June for a fully functional Remote app is grotesquely NOT the Apple way.
Good idea: DON’T buy the Apple TV 4 until such time as APPLE is ready with all required accessories, specifically the FULLY updated and functional Remote app.
SHAME SHAME SHAME 😛
Why not buy it now? It’s not like Apple is going to make it cheaper in 6 months. Same with the iPad Pro. Just because you can’t get you pencil today is not reason to not get the iPad Pro. You can still enjoy the nice big screen and awesome speakers while waiting for the pencil.
Because some long-time Apple fans want to send them a message:
We are your *customers*, not your consumers… don’t take us for granted, don’t expect we’ll buy the latest device from you just because it has your logo on it.
Lately, with all the brouhaha, I’ve wondered whether the “long time Apple fan” contingent has shrunk to a proportion that is disregardable by execs with their paws on the policy levers. It seems so.
I can’t hate Apple for evolving away from the geek gene pool…I understand that that’s a natural phenomenon. Still I am saddened that we have become crustaceans. We could have become so much more in the shaping of Apple, were it not for the millions of new believers.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
I’ll enjoy using my New Apple TV every day in the meantime.
Apple delivered everything they presented in the keynote. Sorry if Apple didn’t meet your expectations.
My point is to make Apple wait for one’s money until THEY are ready with the full product line. I don’t see any point in enabling Apple’s messed up rollout of new products. It’s a form of customer feedback.
If the past is prologue, Apple will make it cheaper in 6 months, actually. If the Pencil is the reason why you’re getting the IPP, then yeah, it does make sense to wait.
Why not buy it now? Because new features notwithstanding, it makes the things you already do on your older version harder to do.
And yes, they likely ARE going to make it cheaper in 6 months. New app / tvOS will probably come with a new model.
I’ll bet you a New Apple TV 64GB model that the price does not change within 6 months.
Are you brave enough to put your money where your mouth is?
I see what’s coming. They will release a fully functional remote when they ship the Apple TV 5, after all those suckers plunked down money for a marginally improved device.
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They’re starting to be like a cable or a phone company aren’t they? Obsessed with winning new customers, not really giving a damn about much else. Follow the money.
I want Apple to be run by a customer experience Nazi. But that’s not where the money is, it seems.
There are bad behaviors going on at Apple. It’s too early for at least me to figure out why. I’m always on the alert for Marketing-As-Management, the nightmare. But that’s clearly not entirely what’s going on. It’s more like the usual effect of a company growing too quickly for its management to, ahem, manage. But I sense more going on, along the lines of a loss of the entrepreneurial spirit. The urgency is waning into something approaching laziness. It takes PITA leadership (memories of Steve Jobs) to keep the entrepreneurial whip cracking. I wouldn’t say what is required is ‘Nazi’ leadership, but I’d definitely describe what’s needed as Type A personality leadership.
Type A and Type B personality theory
The age of heroes is done–in their time, even the gods struggled with virtue and vice, though men little remember the vice yet enshrine the virtue. (Rabelais)
Who doesn’t have feet of clay these days? (Present company excluded, naturally.)
Having just bought an Aplle TV to put under the tree, yay.
I know there’s no chance to edit posts here, so I’m not going to dog your typo; at first glance, it looks like “A pile” though. 🙂
It sucks compared to last gen for playing my ripped movies and videos,…
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