This has shown that Apple has some of the best and dumbest engineers under the same roof

[mr_raccoon]

Talk about an obviously missed opportunity

The Verge

Here are a few unrelated facts:

• Up until few weeks ago, Apple was selling the Siri Remote, one of the least popular (and most easily lost) remote controls ever made, with a slick glass and metal chassis that’s practically designed to slip behind a couch cushion.
• Apple also recently released its AirTag trackers, which use a Bluetooth network of Apple devices and local ultra-wideband tracking to help locate missing items, whether they’re across town or a few feet away in the room with you.
• The AirTag tracker has a small speaker, so you can find it buried in a couch or under a pile of throw pillows.
• Apple just redesigned the Siri Remote, which it announced at the same event as the AirTags trackers.
• Apple did not include a UWB chip in the new Siri Remote to allow users with recent iPhone devices to track said remote if they manage to lose it.
• Apple is a company that produces cases for almost all of its products (including the iPhone, iPad, and AirTag tracker) — but not either iteration of the Siri Remote.
• Apple’s official support document for “If you lost the remote for your Apple TV,” advocates that users either use the Apple TV remote function integrated into iOS devices or just buy a new one.
• My Apple TV remote is somewhere in my living room, and no, I don’t have any idea where it is.

[WoolyBugger]

I feel this way about Sony products.

So many products over the last few decades with wonderful fit and finish, gloss, functionality, with so many poorly thought out design decisions.

[GilbertWham]

I’ve been saying for fucking years now that TV manufacturers need to produce TVs with a big button on the top that, when you press it, makes the remote go ‘beep beep beep’. You could do this with dollar-store grade technology, dammit.

[Brainspore]

Jemaine: “I think you might have ruined my phone when you made me that camera-phone… and my camera.”