[PB] Re: Apple Remote + Front Row

[at leX]

If you check out the tech spec's of the new iMac carefully you will  
see that nowhere does it specify an IR port.
In fact if you did not know that the remote was IR you would not even  
know that the IR port existed on the new iMac.
So Apple do not say it is there or if it even uses  any standards for  
IR ports.
As far as I can tell from the web you can not use it for anything  
other than the remote.

If any PB users also have the new iMac can you let us know if this  
port is addressable for anything else?
Or is it solely for the remote?

Alex


On 15 Nov 2005, at 04:12, Lists wrote:


On Nov 13, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> I've just stumbled across the thread. It's a shame that Apple  
> didn't do it this way.
>
> Make the software general and build the remote capability into the  
> Nano. Then ever mac user would buy a Nano to operate front row.  
> Missed opportunity.

Perhaps Apple just isn't as short-sighted as some.  They can always  
do that later

New technology built into a new iMacs will sell new iMacs.

New technology built into a new Nano will sell new Nanos.

I suspect they'd rather sell iMacs than Nanos, and Nanos were already  
so hot they couldn't keep them on the shelves.  Adding remote  
capability to the Nano would have added to the bulk and cost.

So sell the new technology built into new iMacs today, sell iMacs to  
early adopters.

In a year or two, add remote capabilities to Nano (or whatever is new  
at the time... personally I think the Shuffle would make a great  
remote, it just needs one more setting on the back :-) and get  
another bite at the, well, apple, for folks who didn't go for new  
iMacs but who might go for a new iPod.

Just a thought.

TjL

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