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I have wanted to say something for weeks but was never sure whether the issue deserved its own spot or just a minor reference. It is deserving, I have concluded.
The Apple Remote is great and purely simple. I was immediately in awe the first time I used it - a full-featured remote with an interface simple enough to complement the other Apple products out there. But even on my first try, something seemed amiss.
Then, another leery feeling. And another. And WHAM! it dawned on me.
The Apple Remote has a terrible, haptic flaw. The Menu key is fully flush with the rest of the remote body. While the ring of the other buttons provide a lifted surface to interact with without the need of a glance at the unit, the Menu button always requires that you - ok, at least me - look at the remote to make sure you are touching it. The gap around the button is insignificant enough, too, that the average thumb - again, mine - cannot distinguish its locale.
Solution: the Menu key should be given a slight concavity inward to provide a tactile capacity to locate the button without the need of visual confirmation. Why inward? The ring above is convex out. An inward button is the perfect yang to the ring’s ying.
I already submitted my Apple feedback form. Und du?
July 30th, 2007 at 7:31 am
I think it might just be your thumb. I find that I don’t have to look at that part of my remote. After all, it is the only part of that region of my remote that I can depress.
Also, since you are an avid cycler, I was wondering when you will break your silence concerning the scandal revolving around the Tour de France?
August 1st, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Are you talking about the same Apple Remote that I am? All of the buttons depress and are all in a similar region apart from the Menu button being outside of the ring. Of course, I can smash the remote somewhere in the middle and assume I hit the button, but that is nowhere near as suave a motion as would an easy-to-access key.
Only the American media coverage of the Tour revolved around doping, mainly due to the popularization of sensationalized news. I would recommend that you read some of the history of the Tour. You’ll find that up until the 1960s, the race was so intense that only those doping were physically able to finish it. They had to cut back the extent of it in order to allow natural human effort to accomplish the feat. It has such an interesting past.