![]() ![]() I’m happy to report that the new Apple Siri Remote appears to solve the problems with the previous Apple TV remote. And Apple, unlike those firms, doesn’t have any obvious advertising in its UI, which I also like. Apple, like Amazon and Google, is trying to aggregate content and recommendations from multiple services in the top-level UI, which I like. As important, when I buy movies and TV shows online, I buy them from Apple, and to access the special features on movies, I need to be using an Apple TV that content is not available from the Apple TV app on other platforms. First, the Apple TV UI-which was taken from an old Mac OS X app called Front Row that Apple ripped off from Microsoft’s Windows Media Center-is simple and efficient, and it should offer excellent performance on the new Apple TV 4K. There are a few reasons I might want to use Apple TV, however, so this new remote is of interest for practical reasons. Remote comparison: Apple (new), Apple, Google, Roku, Amazon ![]() And with other living room set-top boxes offering better remotes-like every Roku, the latest Fire TVs, and, most recently, the Chromecast with Google TV-I just didn’t see a reason to bother with a fiddly remote. Each was unsatisfactory for different reasons. I bought a third-party Apple TV remote from Amazon (no longer available) and tried that instead. I used a Logitech Harmony universal remote (now discontinued) for several months. I bought a silicon case that made the remote more grippy and less likely to succumb to my couch cushions. Over the years, I’ve tried all kinds of things to “fix” the previous Apple TV remote. Apple can be stubborn, even when its worst ideas are so obvious to everyone else. But then, this is the company that burdened its MacBook customers with endemically unreliable butterfly keyboards for years as well. It was so bad that I was surprised by how long that Apple stood by it. The previous Apple TV remote was, as I wrote at the time, “terrible, and prone to misclicks and mis-swipes, and is, in general, the worst thing about Apple TV.” That remote is also tiny and slippery, and too easy to lose in the couch or pick up upside down and misuse. ![]()
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