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I would like to complain about the game of Brick that refuses to award me a victory despite clearing away all the bricks. Can I get my money back please?
Also, it always bounces at the same angle regardless of where it bounced on the paddle, which makes it really long and boring. The lack of payoff is even more annoying.
That's what I miss.
This is really cool. It’s amazing how “realistic” the clickwheel feels—it instantly transported me back to actually using an iPod. Also, there’s something poetic about emulating the clickwheel on the interface that replaced it :)
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Do you have to have the watch with LTE, or does it actually cache music locally?
As far as I know, only apple music saves it locally but spotify and others can stream if you have LTE. I believe this is just a hold up from spotify and the apis are available though.
Weird question, but is it safe to sign into my Apple account via some random novelty app like this? What's the worst a bad actor could do?
So if your token gets hijacked then the bad actor would probably be able to view your playlists and listen to your music.
This is really cool. It’s amazing how “realistic” the clickwheel feels—it instantly transported me back to actually using an iPod. Also, there’s something poetic about emulating the clickwheel on the interface that replaced it :)
I still have my original iPods. The original and the mini chromatic ones. When I'm on the go and or in a gym and I need to play music, nothing beats a simple mp3 player. Don't want the bulk of the phone. Don't want to have to touch a phone screen and engage with it. I'd rather just reach into my pocket and press buttons.
For the player I wonder whether I can trust it fir the access to my iphone account. Or Spotify.
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"Sadly, this only works on Chrome Desktop" when clicking the sign in to Spotify on my iPhone. definitely doesn't have that "it just works feel" in that regard. However, driving the click wheel is fun. I did instinctively click on the buttons that would pop up in the menu by clicking them directly the first time rather than spinning the wheel to get to them. Just shows how much more powerful the touch screen is.
I have to admit, this was first time I've considered trialing Apple Music after being a longtime Spotify customer. Lack of browser support in a Spotify Web API providing free advertising for Apple Music. The irony!
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Simpler than one might think - once you do the math to project each touch/mouse event down to an angle, you just need to quantize the angle to a certain number of discrete options (which you can measure on an actual device), look at the event stream of such angle events pairwise, and take the sign of the pairwise difference as right/left or up/down! The much harder part when designing the iPods themselves was to buil…
> Simpler than one might think > ... you just need to quantize the angle ... look at the event stream ... and take the sign of the pairwise difference This is harder than I thought
Round the angle quite severely. E.g. if using 10 degree steps you'd round anything below 5 degrees to 0 degrees, and anything above to 10 degrees. Anything above 15 would get rounded to 20, and so on.
> look at the event stream
Look at the last two directions the above procedure generated.
> and take the sign of the pairwise difference
If the new angle is higher it's a counterclockwise motion. If the new angle is lower it's a clockwise motion. Do some special handling if the angle wraps around from 350 to 0 degrees or vice versa.