Mountain Lion AirPlay Mirroring (iMac to AppleTV) Not Working

Mountain Lion successfully installed on my iMac.


AppleTV sucessfully networked with my iMac (at least where iTunes and iPhoto are concerned.)


But AirPlay icon is NOT appearing in my menu bar. Any clues as to why this is?


In System Preferences, I've checked "Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available" but still nothing.


Below is a screenshot of my menu bar. Thanks in advance!




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Posted on Jul 25, 2012 9:13 AM

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Jul 26, 2012 2:30 AM in response to jcetheredge

Hi Everyone,


email a complaint to

macappstore_english_us_support@apple.com

about your unhappiness with Mountain Lion. I did and got a refund straight away.


Also go to Apple Feedback and tell them what you think


http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html


The more painful this becomes the more likely they are to want to fix this and painful is refunds! 🙂


Darren

Jul 26, 2012 2:48 AM in response to jcetheredge

I can't believe this.....


Paid for ML before work and ran the installer and headed to the office.

Durning lunch I bought a new ATV Gen2 (for 1080p - the old one can go in the bedroom now).

Got home super excited about one feature........AirPlay Mirroring! Love airplay on the iPad, but on the mac would be so much more practical.

I played around in settings for a good 30 minutes before goggling and finding this thread.....


An 18 month MBP is out of date....SERIOUSLY APPLE?

I want my $120 dollars I spent today on NOTHING back.


FU!


Bring on Win8 and Surface....time to go back to an open platform.......you lost me today.

Jul 26, 2012 3:20 AM in response to jcetheredge

Are you kidding me Apple? You are so desperately trying to please Wall Street now that you started to apply these dirty tatics to grab money from your loyal customers and in an attempt to spawn growth? I am just speechless, I feel like betrayed. I trusted you and I kept saying how good this company is to my other friends. Well, thanks for the "Ha, Gotcha!". You suck!

Jul 26, 2012 4:15 AM in response to jcetheredge

I also feel cheated. I just bought an Apple TV - the only reason I bought it was because Mountain Lion was about to come out and it supported Airplay Mirroring. I have mid 2010 Mac Mini and a mid 2010 Macbook Pro.

Once I had bought the Apple TV and Mountain Lion, I found that of course Airplay Mirroring didn't work.

If you were smart enough to read the small print and to know precisely which model Macbook or Mac Mini you had (not obvious at all, because the 'Mid 2010' descriptors were only introduced in Lion and I upgraded straight from Snow Leopard) then you would know not to waste your time and money. But for the average punter like me, I just feel like I've been conned.

This experience has turned me fron an Apple evangelist to a cynic. Very, very disappointed,

Jul 26, 2012 4:29 AM in response to jcetheredge

my complaint to apple:

Apple,

I am appalled at your advertising of your AirPlay Mirroring with Mountain Lion OSX. From all of the advertisements, it was not made clear to users that this feature would not be compatible for earlier Macbook's (for example my late 2010 macbook pro core 2 duo).

I am now using AirParrot to mimic Air play capabilities similar to what i was expecting with the new software update.

In my opinion, this is misleading advertising, similar to that of the advertised 4G capabilities of the iPad3 release in Australia.

If a third party application such as AirParrot is capable of streaming my Macbook core2duo video and audio to my TV, then i cant see why you cant make it accessible for earlier macbook users.

What an absolute joke Apple, I'm not the only Apple user infuriated by this misleading advertising conduct.

Fix this issue immediately!

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