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Apple TV Remote Stand β A walnut stand for the Apple TV remote.
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I love that you're making this little guy in-house. I hope that becomes a trend for Studio Neat products. We've really enjoyed building our factory, I think you would too.
@danprovost Did you get an early dev kit? How did you have access to the remote before it shipped?
@kepano Thanks Stephan! We had a local friend who had one of the Dev Kits, so we borrowed his :)
@kepano Yeah, while the promised future of home manufacturing doesn't make sense for the consumer, it can really have an effect on how we approach product strategy. If you have lower friction and overhead to make unit 1, we'll see many more specialized products unburdened by high-volume requirements (that then also get a chance to prove greater demand).
i think i will lose it even without it. just bought a bluetooth finder to connect it to the remote
Great job. I applaud that you went for the what can we do ourselves now method with the added benefit of getting a CNC in-house. Also, nice that you have another Lisagor ad-read. Keep up the good work.
@danprovost Hey Dan, what made you both decide that this was needed?
Do you have plans for other variations of this, say for an iPhone or similar? π
@bentossell Hey Ben. For Tom and I, our Apple TVs ARE our TVs, so the remote is obviously important. And with this new Apple TV remote, you can turn the TV on and off, and control the volume, so for a couple of cord-cutters like us it will be the only remote we need, which is really nice. And, if past experience is any indication, these tiny Apple remotes are easily to lose track of. So we basically just wanted to create a simple "home base" for the remote, so you always know where to find it. Quite simple, really!
@bentossell Regarding other variations for other Apple products... we'll see :)
Here is a little more info about why we made it and how are we making it: http://www.studioneat.com/blogs/...
When I first saw this, I thought to myself, "Why the hell would I need this." Then I recalled my tweet from last night... https://twitter.com/ttayl0r/stat...
My 2 cents:
I think anyone who buys this, and uses it, is a person that wouldn't lose the remote in the first place. Or if they do lose it often, they would use it at clean up time. Meaning, you're cleaning up your TV room, and you drop it in this stand. But it never goes back in, till you clean up again. So I don't believe this is an organizational tool. I think it's a display tool. A person who would use this, is the type of person who puts the remote down in the same spot, every time. For instance, a phone dock works, because when people sit at their desk, they do one of two things, they either keep the phone in their pocket, or they lay it on their desk. The dock keeps your desk organized. That's easy. The desk is in front of you, that's your hub, so you use the dock to keep things in shape. For me though, this remote stand is different. I lose this remote all the time (silver one), but I only lose the one in the bedroom. Not the one in the TV room. Why? Because when I'm sitting on my couch, I always put the remote on the coffee table. It's right in front of me, I eat food there, it's my hub, so I drop it right there. But in the bedroom, I keep it on the bed with me, and it gets under the covers, or under the pillows, or between the sheets, and it just gets swallowed into the bed. So could I use this stand in the TV room? Just like I would use a dock at my desk? You'd think the answer would be yes, but it's actually no. The desk has a center, it has a core, it has a focus. It's your computer. So if you have a phone dock on your desk, where is it? It's right there next to your computer. That's where it belongs. But on a coffee table, there's no focus. A coffee table is a catch all. It's a junk draw. This stand can go in one place, and one place only. An end table. But I don't use the end tables for my tools. I use the junk draw.
Wonder if Apple ever thought of putting a small speaker into the Apple TV remote so that you can use your iPhone or Apple Watch to detect it if it ever gets lost. That remote is quite small.
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@_yannbertrand Funny, same first impression here - but it's reasonably useful if Apple TV is your go-to. The price point is very fair, and realistic as well.
@jimmyamash @_yannbertrand Yes it's very beautiful for $12. Don't get many products targeted to Apple products at that price point.
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