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where is the remote

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there it is one of the minor announcements at apple spring loaded

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event was the update to the apple tv now that's not as exciting as what comes

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with the apple tv which is a brand new updated siri remote

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we don't have to use this anymore now where did i put that one

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ah there it is the new siri remote does

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come with all the available apple tvs like this

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new 4k model and the remarkably still available hd

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model but if you're already the proud owner of an

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apple tv you can get the siri remote on its own for 60 that seems a little

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bit steep so to find out if it's worth the money i'm going to compare it to the old one

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and see just how it stacks up but to do that let's figure out what

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made the old one so bad in the first place the old siri

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remote was one of apple's design failures of the last decade like the butterfly keyboard

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the design is a case of form compromising function

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with early versions of the remote people were having troubles telling which way

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was up in dark living rooms because it's black and all the buttons

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look the same with nothing really to orient it they did add a white circle to the menu

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button to help but that didn't solve the many other problems the touchpad is just

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bad you have to move your fingers so much just to navigate around the

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interface and it goes from edge to edge while

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being clickable so if you do find the remote in the

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couch cushions while something is playing and you don't grab it correctly you'll

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pause your video and if you grab it correctly from the bottom you're

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grabbing the glossy part which is so prone to smears and hand goop it never

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looks good you can clean it but it's futile because

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you're going to need to wear white gloves if you don't want to make it dirty again

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there's other stuff too these volume buttons are convenient

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but there's no mute button and i can't get it to work with that old receiver

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there it charges through lightning and the horizontal keyboard on tv os

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is really cumbersome

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this design is much much better

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firstly it's no longer black so you can see it on

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a black sofa it's much thicker and has a

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curved bottom so it's less likely to slip between the cushions

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and feels much nicer in the hand still looks good too

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i'd say these design improvements are worth about

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15 next is

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the d-pad this has many benefits firstly it's

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no longer too easy to press the select button when grabbing the remote because

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the button doesn't go the edge and is clearly defined it works like any other d-pad

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but apple has also kept it touch sensitive like the old remote

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you can turn that off if you want though more interestingly is a circular

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jog control like you got on an old clickwheel ipod

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though it's not quite obvious how that works to use it you have to

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pause the video then rest your finger on the edge of the click wheel

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until a little circular dial shows up on the progress bar

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and then you can swirl away it's nice but i think what i want

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is to be able to turn off the swiping gestures while keeping

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the spinny jog dial available with regular d-pad presses but that'd be just

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yet another setting too many still a little disappointing

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i'd say that these improvements are worth

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another 15 some

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other changes of value is the addition of a mute button

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which i would say is worth about four dollars there's a power button to turn

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your tv on and off uh two dollars what was once mislabeled

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as a menu button is now properly labeled as a back button

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two dollars and the siri button has now been moved to the side

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another two dollars what won't add any value is the fact that the keyboard

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remains one-dimensional and lightning charging persists so

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doing the calculations here

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um that comes out to about

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forty dollars which is twenty dollars less than the sixty dollars

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that apple asks for the remote if you already got in

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apple tv and are suffering with the old remote that's a lot to swallow but

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i guess it's better that you can buy it as a standalone option as opposed to

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having to upgrade to a completely new apple tv for

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180 dollars

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and as for that apple tv well the processor's been updated to the a12 chip

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so that should mean it should run a little bit faster for a little bit longer

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through more os updates functionality wise though all you really get is the

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addition of HDR at 4k 60 frames per second

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that's great if your tv supports it and the content you watch supports it

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and if you're among the few who own a homepod or even two

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this new box supports e-arc meaning you can send audio from your tv

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through the apple tv to your homepods minis will be supported in the fall

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at a hundred and eighty dollars for 32 gigabytes of storage and 199 dollars for

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64 gigabytes of storage it really is quite expensive in the

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world of set-top boxes in the past it was a bad option quite

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simply because of that remote but now it's a little bit easier to justify

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and less annoying so that means that the final design

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failure that apple needs to fix is the charging of the magic mouse

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one interesting thing i discovered is i have this

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original apple remote and it still

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works with a current apple tv how cool

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is that