There has been some confirmation to the rumors that the next firmware cycle for these pieces of hardware might just allow for both control of your mac (possibly AppleTV?) from them, and remote access to your library and others as long as you're on the network. See these articles: http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=281 http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/12/patent.iphone.remote/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/27/icontrol.for.iphone/ This could be great news for us. Finally, you can watch all that video content that wouldn't fit on the device, providing you're on the same network. Use of a remote as a media controller and app. controller would be great too. However, I do believe this remote function has already been marketed. Remote Buddy (by German developer IOSpirit GmbH) has been out for a while- they even won a design award in 2006. Anyone see an issue with the patent, or does the patent not rely on the specified AJAX network methodology? (mac only) I've linked to their site below. I'd hate to see another konfabulator tussle here... http://www.iospirit.com/index.php?mode=view&obj_type=infogroup&obj_id=24&o_infogroup_objcode=infogroup-23&o1_infogroup_objcode=html-141&sid=6422663Gb37021bda8e632b1