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Everyone here suggesting user error due to sweating has clearly forgotten the articles from 10 months ago describing the hundreds of gallons of artificial sweat Apple uses each year in product testing. The link below includes photos of AirPods soaking in such synthetic sweat.

http://bgr.com/2017/04/20/sweat-in-apple-airpods-and-watch/

AppleInsider said:

The Siri Remote is controversial, part for its fragility, part for its non-traditional interface. Those not willing to change the user interface paradigm on a television remote have many other ways to control Apple TV, including several Siri Remote alternatives.

This tone-deaf wording makes it sound as though those who seek an alternative are luddites who are simply too backwards to adopt the new. The fact is, the reason people look for alternatives is because they find it hard to use. I, for example, have repetitive strain injury problems on my dominant hand, in particular the thumb, the digit needed to operate the Siri remote. And my other hand’s thumb simply does not have the dexterity needed to operate the trackpad, which I find fidgety in the best of times. I’m not unwilling to use the Siri remote. I am physically incapable — and I’m not even close to the most physically impaired person out there! I cannot imagine how, for example, a Parkinson’s sufferer would operate it.