Originally Posted By: drakino
After reading the coverage of the Samsung CES keynote, I'm even more confused by this device. They showed a guy using the touchscreen to scroll through his twitter feed on the TV screen. The commenter had the question "Why not just read twitter on the device your holding, instead of shrinking your TV viewing experience to fit it up there?"

Apple should just put some kind of IR learning/transmit ability into the next iPod touch and iPad and market it as an AV remote along with the existing abilities. It wouldn't have the physical buttons though which would be a downside.

I wonder if anybody has made a thin jacket or iPhone 4 style bumper with buttons and IR for the iPod touch. I know you can get docks which you pair with the iOS device which handles the IR transmission itself but having it as part of the remote would be nice.

[edit]IR case exists but no buttons[/edit]


Edited by tman (07/01/2011 20:02)