

The company sees Swift potentially being "the major language for the next 20 years of programming in our industry," in Federighi's words. On the subject of Swift going open-source earlier this month, Federighi suggested the move was because Apple wants Swift to be the main language programmers are taught.
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With Swift 2.0 finished, however, current code development is said to be more stable. He admitted that one problem Apple teams have is that they're often working with Swift in a prerelease state. The group said "they couldn't imagine going back and that they're more productive with it ," according to Federighi. More importantly Federighi noted that the team that does Dock and window management for OS X implemented of all of its El Capitan features in Swift, and has worked on mass-converting its code. The iCloud team has been "completely champing at the bit to be able to apply it in many, many of the things they do," the executive told Daring Fireball's John Gruber. Some reviews have also noted difficulty with setting the device up.
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On one attempt, after the remote was successfully paired with the Mac via the Bluetooth connection page, the SiriMote app still didn't recognize the remote more than 15 minutes later.

The Apple TV must also be unplugged during the process, which is a pain if your power cords are difficult to access. Specifically, SiriMote required us to shut down our computer, toggle the Bluetooth on and off and tinker before ultimately accepting the connection.

While the instructions are easy enough - ultimately just pairing the device with your computer and waiting for the app to recognize the remote - it took several tries for SiriMote to recognize our remote. Once installed, SiriMote allows control of playback features on your computer, restoring functionality found in previous iterations of Apple remotes.ĪppleInsider tested the new app and found that setting up the SiriMote isn't a walk in the park. The freeware app allows you to pair the Siri Remote with an Intel Mac running OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
