Ed: Welcome to this week's edition of The Pixel Project: a weekly comic from Diesel Sweeties' Rich Stevens on Apple, technology, and everything in-between. Today: John, Craig & Eddy Solve the Mystery of the Apple TV Remote
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John, Craig & Eddy Solve the Mystery of the Apple TV Remote
Its kinda a stupid question tho, its kinda like asking why they didnt just do that for the iphone 6 when the iphone 6s comes out.
Or anything updates from any company, why not just do the latest version the first time?
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That's a ridiculous analogy. An app to control the Apple TV by app should be table stakes in 2016. You wouldn't let a kickstarter get away with something like that, never mind Apple
It was and is, thats not what this article is about.
But the analogy holds, its asking why something better wasnt started with... Well it wasnt thought of then
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Yea these are so bad I've learned to enjoy how awful they really are.
You were doing good for a moment there, and this comics is reverting back to your old bad ways.
funny!
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Ya. The one thing this world needed was a comic that tried really hard to continuously paint Apple in evil light and its users in dumb light. Oh, Its comedy. right? Guess thats alright then.
Dilbert, the comic happened in an imaginary company and readers could relate to some incidents in their own companies. They did the relating. That made it funny.
An Apple centric comic will get really boring and repetitive soon and allows little creative freedom.
I am no expert in comics. But I have made the mistake of listening to Gruber's "interview" of these two guys... Pretty much all their answers (except for some facts on user numbers etc.) were complete nonsense (did not answer anything) and should have caused any serious interviewer to keep digging, which did not happen. IMO, the above comic represents that adequately.
This is why I haven't bothered listening to John interview the Apple execs. Those conversations are just a feather in John's cap; fun for him, but without real substance. I prefer The Talk Show when he's not talking to someone shackled by lawyers.
I found it enjoyable to listen to, but I also knew they weren't going to break any new ground. Gruber did get one scoop though, about the iPhone remote app being able to duplicate the Apple TV remote 100%. Even Charlie Rose didn't manage to do that.
Put it in context, Apple execs, from Tim Cook, starting with Steve Jobs, have always been mostly a stonewall to media from 60 Minutes to Walt Mossberg and other notable journalists. In this case Mossberg, despite being a SJ favorite, probably fell off their preferred list too. Apple isn't going to spill the beans on what they're thinking or doing, no matter what context.
In relation to inputting passwords into the Apple TV I hope that they start using Keychain. I have 3 Apple TV's and inputting the passwords for apps on all 3 are a real pain in the ****.