The device is really neat. The web site is shit. Good grief, I can't even put into words how much I hate having UI/UX like this.
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#162Good grief, just make me a smaller phone. Like, the size of pack of playing cards would be perfect. Just big enough to be useful, not big enough to be distracting.
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#163Seizure warning. Edit for clarification: The scrolling implementation here flashes rapidly on Firefox for Mac OS.
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#165OK, in this vein, why oh why did Lyft and Uber remove their apple watch apps? I just need an app that's a single "take me home now" button so I don't have to worry about my phone battery dying when I'm out and about. Pretty please?
Completely speculating, but when an App Store review process can drive business decisions (we have to push the launch of X back because we're having trouble lobbying Apple to approve our changes), it's reasonable to see a second app as doubling the likelihood that you end up in that situation. And even if it weren't for the review processes, would every launch be at the mercy of reporters saying "this isn't supported on my watch, so..."?
It's also possible that each company simply lost all the people who knew the watchOS APIs, and the incremental revenue generated wasn't worth hiring for that role again, or trying to convince someone else at the company to add it to their scope.
Perhaps, as well, there was an expectation that Apple would be the one encouraging Uber to maintain and build the app, and give them favorable treatment on the App Store review processes as a way to sweeten that deal... and then when the larger relationships started to become more acrimonious, any ideas here fell by the wayside.
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#166This website is impressive. It's almost more apple than apple.
Are pages like this typically "storyboarded", then designed in framer (or another tool) and from there the code is generated, or how does it work?
People do amazing things with pure CSS, but this seems beyond what is sensible without some sort of tool to make the job a bit easier.
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#167This is cool!
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#168One way they could take the watch analogy full circle is to give the case a hook and sell a little chain with it. Then it's a pocket watch.
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#169It's funny how we went from using iPod Nano as a watch with a third party case, to using an Apple Watch as an iPod Nano with a third party case.
I still own multiple nanos with the watch bands and the kids love playing with them as a ”more kid-safe Apple Watch”. Even after all these years they’re still immaculate and work great. More than can be said by lots of other more recent technology.
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#170I love the concept! I think TinyPod is an outcry over the sizes of the smartphones today. The smallest most recent iPhone you could buy was iPhone 13 mini and it was discontinued. Don't know about other brands, but from what I am seeing nothing fits the pocket anymore. There must but a niche for those who don't read or watch movies on their hand-held devices, and if the apps are well designed a smaller screen is just…
My hope was that the mini would be a success and they'd eventually had a Pro Mini line, but sadly the mini form-factor hasn't sold well. I would buy a Pro Mini in a heartbeat.