Has Apple Forgotten About Its Remote App? [Rants]

One of my favorite and most-used iPhone apps is Apple\’s Remote app. It lets me remotely control iTunes, that’s streaming to my front room stereo via an Airport Express. But why hasn\’t it been updated in over 8 months?

When the iPad came out, I was excited for what I believed often is the inevitable update that will bring the app the same interface as the iPad\’s iPod app. It’d be ideally suited for the device, with the large screen ready to show more artwork and make flipping through a big music collection easier. It never happened.

And now that I\’ve got an iPhone 4, I keep watching for the iOS4/retina display update to, a minimum of, update the resolution of the icon. No dice.

Hell, one would even expect some updated functionality within the app. How about with the ability to stream the music on either my iPhone or iPad directly to the Airport Express instead of having to move through my computer?

Are these big deals? No, obviously. The app still works, and it works at half-resolution on the iPad. Nevertheless it seems strange that one of Apple\’s few first-party apps within the app store could be left to rot as hardware is updated whilst Apple pushes third-party developers to update their apps for the newest releases. It\’s last update was November 20, 2009! What gives, Apple?

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