One of my favourite and most-used iPhone apps is Apple’s Remote app. It lets me remotely control iTunes, which is streaming to my living room stereo via an Airport Express. But why hasn’t it been updated in over eight months?
When the iPad came out, I was excited for what I assumed would be the inevitable update that would bring the app a similar interface as the iPad’s iPod app. It would be perfectly suited for the device, with the big screen able to show more artwork and make flipping through a large music collection easier. It never happened.
And now that I’ve got an iPhone 4, I keep waiting for the iOS 4/retina display update to, at the very least, update the resolution of the icon. No dice.
Hell, one would even expect some updated functionality in the app. How about being able to stream the music on either my iPhone or iPad directly to the Airport Express rather than having to go through my computer?
Are these big deals? No, obviously. The app still works and it works at half-resolution on the iPad. But it seems strange that one of Apple’s few first-party apps in the app store would be left to rot as hardware is updated even as Apple pushes third-party developers to update their apps for the latest releases. It’s last update was November 20, 2009! What gives, Apple?
mad2407
Friday, July 30, 2010 at 12:43 PMI too love the Apple Remote app especially in conjunction with iTunes DJ. Most my friends have iPhones and when we have a party everyone uses their own phones to add songs to the playlist. Here’s the update I want… The ability to restrict what other peoples Remote apps can control. Eg. just be able to select songs while letting my app control everything.
Dave
Friday, July 30, 2010 at 1:53 PMMy guess is that it’ll be updated once the new Apple TV launches. That can’t be too far away now…
Badger
Friday, July 30, 2010 at 7:03 PMI doubt Gizmodo will be the first to receive the answer to that