I'll be damned if I'm going to give Apple $80.
I could see tiny shards of glass on the tile as I reached to retrieve the control. I couldn't believe how smashed the touch-sensor area was.
I tapped the device against the palm of my hand and more pieces came off, I placed those pieces, along with the pieces on the tile, in the garbage, wondering if all the cracks on the surface spelled the doom of the controller. But first, I wanted to apply a layer of tape over the sensor area to protect fingers.
That done, I turned on the TV and was relieved when the remote control still worked.
Over time, though, the tape started to peel and when it finally lifted off of one corner, I took the tape away. More pieces of glass came with the tape. Carefully, I ran my finger over the bare surface and while it did grab my skin, sometimes also loosening some of the cracked pieces, I found I could use the controller relatively safely without any tape in place.
But every once and a while, I'd stab myself with a tiny shard.
DW and I went to the Apple store, in mid-February, when her phone stopped working, and while I was killing time, I noticed some Apple TV remote controls on a shelf. They were the new generation, with a circular, buttoned control, rather than the touch-sensor area of our device.
The replacement cost: $79.
I did a search on Kijiji and found someone who was selling my generation (which I think is 3rd) of Apple TV, with the remote, for $100. I could probably talk them down to $90, would have the replacement remote and another TV box.
Someone once told me, jokingly, that "Microsoft wants your money: Apple wants your soul." Maybe they want your soul but they also want a large chunk of your hard-earned cash.
I'll use our broken controller until it no longer works. And then we'll go from there.
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