Apple TV Remote

I’ve had an Apple TV for a while. I like the Apple TV. I hate the remote that came with it. The very first Apple TV devices had a lovely little silver remote that had just enough buttons to be properly useful. It was very well made and worked a treat. The next Apple TV that I got had this horrible black thing. It looked like it had actually been designed so that you couldn’t tell which way up you are holding it, so that using it involved a lot more messing around than it should. It also had a touch pad that was as useless as it was unnecessary. In short, not good.

Then, a while back, Apple announced a new Apple TV remote. As I use Apple TV a lot, i thought I’d get one. It is annoying to have to spend lumps of cash to get to a situation where you should have been at the start, but the new remote does a good job of making amends. The buttons are nice and clicky, the design makes sense and it works very well. I’m now a less unhappy customer than I was.