Huge price difference between Apple TV and Fire TV (or Google TV). Amazon and Google are eating Apple’s lunch when it comes to the living room hardware.
Can't conceive how a team of professionals released it. it's intentionally built to not be touch-intuitive. it's a smooth rectangle with no obvious way to feel front/back. the touch pad is too sensitive and not precise so you're always always overshooting your intention. there's no back/forward button, they are "menu" and "screen" ? i have no fucking idea what they mean to this day. screen is "home" and if you press it you lose all navigation. "menu" is like select and back... but not really. i have never pressed the mic or play/pause, cuz that's what the big touch button does too. there's no mute...
i can think of this remote and laugh on demand, it's just so impressive how bad it is.
On an unrelated note Jonny Ive is no longer with Apple and hasn't been for some time.
And the first generation remote hasn’t been in use for a long while now, anyway.
The general layout for the remote the parent poster was talking about was discontinued in May of 2021 (last being the Siri 1st gen remote), so it wasn't that long ago.
And it seems to have been revived somewhat by samsung... at least my friends new remote from them has definite feel of apple TV remote v1.
Making it out of glass was crazy though. I shattered one pre-launch from a light fall.