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| Apple Will Update The iPhone's Remote App To Do Everything Apple TV's Own Remote Can |
In any case, long-lasting Apple TV clients saw something speedy: Apple's Remote application for the iPhone, which permitted you to control the Apple TV with your iPhone when the committed remote wasn't helpful, wasn't staying aware of the new list of capabilities. Essential usefulness (like utilizing the iPhone as a console) worked — yet the greater part of the clever new stuff was absent.
It sounds like that'll be evolving in no time. In a meeting with John Gruber, Apple's Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi laid out a few subtle elements of a coming Remote application upgrade:
Eddy Cue: We have a new remote app.. if you have an iphone, you can use the keyboard on the iPhone.Craig: And more than that, really… there’s full Siri, from your phone, communicating to your TV. That’s a great upgrade to that app.Gruber: Well, there’s a remote app [already] for the iPhone now that you can connect to AppleTV.Eddy: There is. As Craig said, it only does the keyboard… the new remote app will have all the capabilities of the new Apple TV remote does, like Siri.Craig: And obviously, you have the trackpad function of the remote — you’ll be able to do that with the phone. It’s really a full replacement.Gruber: Will it work with some of the games? So if there’s a 2 player game, someone can use their phone, someone else can use the remote?Eddy: Yep – that’s exactly it. Remote for one person, phone for one person.
It's entirely astounding to hear Cue and Federighi speak so transparently about new stuff in the pipeline; generally, Apple expected to keep even the littlest of points of interest carefully guarded. In the middle of this and opening up iOS betas to people in general, it's as though somebody at Apple said "Perhaps… perhaps we don't need to be so cryp
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