Xbox 360 iPad control enabled: a taste of SmartGlass

I tried it last night.

Felt a little bizarre but at the same time impressive the way it all works.

Will this catch on in a big way I'm not entirely sure.

Does it just work on iPad and iPhone or will my old iPod Touch run this app?

Any news on an android app?

Does it just work on iPad and iPhone or will my old iPod Touch run this app?

As long as it has ios 4.3 or newer then it should run it.

Going to try it out later when the kids won't come for their dinner

Dammit mine is ios 3 I think, well it stopped updating about two years ago - that version. I hate apple. But also like them.

Does it just work on iPad and iPhone or will my old iPod Touch run this app?

As long as it has ios 4.3 or newer then it should run it.

Going to try it out later when the kids won't come for their dinner

Not sure which version I have but at least I know it's worth giving it a go and isn't doomed to failure before I begin. Cheers.

Dammit mine is ios 3 I think, well it stopped updating about two years ago - that version. I hate apple. But also like them.

Apple are the EA of devices, once they've got your money, you're dead to them. Oh, you've got last year's iPhone, well you're not getting this, this, this or this.

I will of course have to swallow my words when my Galaxy S2 (which I had for about a fortnight before the S3 was announced, thanks a bunch, Samsung) won't update to Android 5.0 Terry's Chocolate Orange (or whatever sugary thing they call it).

All that's on Google Play is My Xbox Live, no Xbox Companion app for me.

EDIT: Should have read the bloody article, My Xbox Live is the app I want. Downloading now.

Dammit mine is ios 3 I think, well it stopped updating about two years ago - that version. I hate apple. But also like them.

Apple are the EA of devices, once they've got your money, you're dead to them. Oh, you've got last year's iPhone, well you're not getting this, this, this or this.

Sorry, but that is complete bollocks... Customer service of Apple, on the whole (there are always exceptions, pedantic few who will no doubt jump forward arm raised), is way above the majority of electronics companies. Technology moves so fast that they restrict older devices onto older OS' for the very simple reason they can't run them well enough.

Agree or disagree with their questionable pricing policy sure, wonder why on earth they change things sometimes that weren't broken and say to the user 'tough, live with it, we like it that way', but don't criticise them for locking an old handset from a prohibitive update that they know would kill said device.

Admittedly I've only had one experience with Apple Customer Service and it was bad. The s***ty security on the iTunes store meant someone else was able to buy two songs on my account without my password and I had to quote the Distance Selling Regulations to get the credit back. Even then they said it was a "one-time exception". Douchebags.

Now that I mention iTunes, what an awful piece of crap it is on Windows. It's bloated, installs stuff without asking (what the hell is Bonjour anyway?), takes a good thirty seconds to start and two minutes to recognise when I plug my iPod in. Nearly every time I open it, it wants to download an update. And who wants a media player with no stop button?

I've always thought that Apple are the ultimate purveyors of style over substance and they charge a hefty premium for that style, too. Not to mention all the other companies try to copy them rather than dare to do something different.

Every portable music player now comes with an iTunes rip-off as the only way to put music on it, rather than just dragging and dropping files into them like they used to. That's why I ended up getting an iPod nano (before they removed the camera and kept the price the same), because why buy something that's trying to be an iPod when you can get a real one?

I think Android has been very generous update wise, my HTC Desire S shipped with version 2.3 and has now been updated to 2.3.5 which is a whole...small fraction of improvement...but the point is it was free and the updates I've had have all beefed up my phone with something or other so I'm not complaining. Also I just looked and according to some info Android have confirmed Desire S will get an update to Android 4.0 in the next month or so - not too shabby.

I have no love for Apple at all, I may be tempted by a Windows 8 tablet, which should (theoretically) have unparalleled SmartGlass power.

I have no love for Apple at all

That's the thing now though, not many people do, they've become the new 'you're cool if you hate them' company that MS were for so long - not saying that's why you don't have any love for them, maybe you've got good reason etc.

The iphone 3GS will be getting (an albeit reduced) version of iOS 6 this year too, not bad for a phone that came out in 2009?

Style over substance is something you could well have thrown at a lot of apple products going back in time a bit, but nowadays? They're not perfect, no company is, neither are their products (the 'phone' part of the iphone for instance is still laughably bad) - I'm not going any more into this though as it'll become like any other flaming thread in the whole wide world of internet of Apple vs everyone else, i've got games to play and literally can't be bothered, your opinion is fine, i just don't have to agree with it so we'll agree not to...!

I'll definitely agree to disagree, and I agree with your point that it is "cool" to hate Apple, but then I tend to hate things that are overly popular for reasons I can't fathom. Facebook is another example. It scares the hell out of me that most of its users don't know how much of their privacy they're surrendering by signing up.

Back on topic, and sorry for the diversion, the Android version of My Xbox Live doesn't have Xbox control yet. It also only wants to use Wifi and not 3G data.

I apologise for adding to this but I think Apple are like Activision in the way that they release the same product each year but slightly different - it's a great product but you wish it was something much more and are bitter that the one you own compared to the new one could have been added as an extra in the short time frame as dlc (for game analogy)/phone update, and rather every three years they release a new uber version.

I don't dislike apple as I've said, they're just not amazing in any way though, except wealth.

I apologise for adding to this but I think Apple are like Activision in the way that they release the same product each year but slightly different - it's a great product but you wish it was something much more and are bitter that the one you own compared to the new one could have been added as an extra in the short time frame as dlc (for game analogy)/phone update, and rather every three years they release a new uber version.

I don't dislike apple as I've said, they're just not amazing in any way though, except wealth.

Again, agree to disagree, but you're opening a different can of worms, touching on consumer greed and the need to always have the latest and greatest. The only thing that beats consumer greed is corporate greed unfortunately so they'll happily milk us willing piggies for as long as they can!

Also not sure how you see Apple as being different in this practice to Sony/Samsung/Phillips/Microsoft/etc. but i digress, it's not something i can really be arsed debating, it's something that will always come down to opinion.

I don't dislike apple as I've said, they're just not amazing in any way though, except wealth.

I'm quite partial to bananas more then apples as they don't leave a sour taste in your mouth

Isn't this update the same as what went live on the iPhone a few weeks ago? It looks the same albeit on a bigger screen.

@Sid I agree with the Apple customer service, I had an iPad that kept crashing, it had only a few days left on the 1 year guarantee and they replaced it. Happy days

I tried it at E3, didn't care for it. When you don't have games to talk about, this will have to do.

Sorry to start up a world v Apple debate. It literally is just that I don't get on with their products to be honest, I think they are flashy and stylish and whatever but in terms of using them day to day I'll stick with what I've got. Don't worry Sid, not going to get on my judgemental horse and start tutting at you. It is silly how worked up people can get about it all though, it's just another company. Sure they are probably here for life (iPod has basically replaced the term MP3 player, ask any 10 year old), but that's no reason to dismiss them without giving them a try. That's why I have, and decided they're not for me.

Well done everyone for being grown ups about discussing it by the by, this could have got real ugly real fast, like in Bezza's 1930s Tommy Gun style Battlefield.

Just need to add my $0.02 to the debate that has nothing to do with the original article...
IMO, Apple products generally do what their userbase wants it to, and does it well - it's their business practices I can't stand. The pricing policy that should have fallen foul of anti-competition legislation by now, the do-it-our-way-or-go-****-yourself attitude, the over-policing of the app store (Google Play is too far the other way though), and the fact that Mr Jobs (RIP) wanted to make it his mission to eliminate the competition so he could have a monopoly.
It's too much and, in the same way I now won't buy an EA product because of their practices, I won't buy an Apple product because of their practices.