{"id":16170,"date":"2016-10-29T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16170"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:40:27","slug":"the-beautifully-annoying-siri-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/29\/the-beautifully-annoying-siri-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beautifully Annoying Siri Remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kensegall.com\/2016\/10\/the-beautifully-annoying-siri-remote\/\">Ken Segall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/kensegall.com\/2016\/10\/the-beautifully-annoying-siri-remote\/\">\n<p>Like the hockey puck, you can&rsquo;t tell what direction the Siri Remote is facing when you pick it up. You have a 50-50 chance of getting it right, and therefore a 50-50 chance of hitting the wrong button.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Like the ill-fated touch-sensitive iPod, the Siri Remote&rsquo;s touchpad makes it way too easy to screw up your viewing by accident. All it takes is the slightest brush of a finger when handling it.<\/p>\n<p>And, though the touchpad is a cool thing, it is oftentimes not nearly as quick and accurate as physical directional buttons would be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-10-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/793050232229617665\">Marcel Weiher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/793050232229617665\"><p>tvOS 10.0 broke volume on Siri remote so you had to config every time. 10.1 broke it <em>further<\/em> so even config doesn&rsquo;t work!!<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Segall: Like the hockey puck, you can&rsquo;t tell what direction the Siri Remote is facing when you pick it up. You have a 50-50 chance of getting it right, and therefore a 50-50 chance of hitting the wrong button. [&#8230;] Like the ill-fated touch-sensitive iPod, the Siri Remote&rsquo;s touchpad makes it way too easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,77],"class_list":["post-16170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-tv","tag-design"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16203,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16170\/revisions\/16203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}