the ipod remote

When I use my iPod at night, I don't use the remote, but rather the backlight... yeah... it works well in the night ;)

I hope the remotes that comes with the new pods are better. Something in style with the iRiver remotes; with a LCD display. That would be soo nice :)
A wireless remote (not IR) would also be extremly nice

they need to develope those Sony MD player type of remotes. With a small screen allowing you to see what song is being played, the standard buttons (play pause volume) and a little tab on the side that you can press up and down to change the tracks.

It's apparent to me that apple could care less about the remote. When the ipod first came out, people were crying for a remote so apple did the cheapest thing and put one out. They could have done an lcd remote, but why should they, we were buying ipods without remotes and buying them with the crappy ones that they gave us. Why would we think that apple cared about what we wanted. It's all about the benjamin's.

If they cared, then why didn't they give real on the go playlists like people have been screaming about as well as real EQ. The OTG that they did put out was not exactly what people wanted. But apple again showed their concern by giving their customers what apple wanted them to have. I guess apple's motto should be "have it our way, because that's the only way you are going to get it". Don't get me wrong I am grateful to apple for the ipod. It's my first apple purchase and probably my last.

I would have, in fact, I shelled out 79 usd for a sony md remote...and believe me, I good remote is mucho importante...

I'm not anti-mac. If Windows had made the ipod with the same remote I would feel the same. I'm through.

right .. so we've established that the remote is crap. I personally quite like the remote apart from this tarnishing problem. i get brown marks around the buttons, any idea how to get rid of them?
A display would have been nice because having to get my ipod out of the case to see what song is playing is getting annoying..

Would i get a replacement remote under the warranty because of the tarnishing problem?

cheers
Jim

Originally posted by hazmat
These remotes suck, quality-wise. Functionally I have no problems with them, other than their getting tarnished looking. I am about to go on my third remote, both replaced under warrenty. The jack for the earphones goes bad, where the right channel will cut out and twisting the plug from the earphones will get it back usually. I would think that my warrenty is all from the iPod itself, so eventually I will have to buy a new remote every 4 months or so. Plus, they only seem to sell the remote with new earbuds, and I don't use the Apple ones.

... yea I have a similar gripe with the remote ... i've only had it for 4 weeks, only use it for commuting to work, sits in my pocket so no distressing movements that maybe expected with jogging etc. and yet the cable connecting into the iPod has already started to crack through to the underlying audio cables ... the design of the male connector on the remote plugging into the female port on the iPod has minimal flexibility (unlike most head-phone connectors that routinely have a ridged array of silicone/plastic/rubber to allow flexibility) - thus even if its replaced under warranty it looks likely to be an ongoing problem ... considering the iPod's requirements for mobile use such poor design in lack of flexibility at these obvious stress points is annoying.