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Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by wil421 »

nsxwolf wrote: post #108
ykl wrote: post #39

I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…

Does it at least do anything well? An iPod replacement would be fun, but the best thing about an iPod was the wired headphones. This would only work with my AirPods, which almost never work without fiddling with something either in the UI or by taking them in and out of their case.

I got my first MP3 player in 1999 or the early 00s. The SAN disk card had 16MB and I had to cut a song in half so I could fit 3/4 songs.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by smelendez »

kylebenzle wrote: post #137
euvin wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought you were making a joke about TikTok the social media app at first. I wonder how many other products were named TikTok.

It was a ver common phrase. I think its been lost to history but right before "TikTok" the phrase "tic tock" was getting popular as a way to say, "the second-by-second run down", e.g. give me the tic tock.

This was common in journalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-tock_(journalism)

But I haven’t heard it in a while.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by nirav72 »

sithadmin wrote: post #37

Along similar lines of thought: there is an Apple Watch case from Japan that replicates the once-popular Infobar 'candybar' phone handset: https://www.multicore.blog/p/infobar-apple-watch-case-review... Unfortunately the buttons are purely for aesthetics.

That is neat. I wonder if the antenna is there for aesthetics ?

Also, would've been better if it folded up like a clamshell phone from the early 2000s.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by BSTRhino »

hanley wrote: post #115
Etheryte wrote: post #100

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Not even the pocket, all modern flagship phones are so large that I can't use them well with one hand. I'll stick with the mini till the day it does and just hope there's a better something out there by that time.

I'm hoping that Apple releases a new mini on a 3 year cadence. Maybe there wasn't enough demand to continue the line every year, but they'll bring it back occasionally?

Agreed. The moment the iPhone mini comes back, I am buying one straight away

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by bobthepanda »

achrono wrote: post #174
ykl wrote: post #39

I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…

> it's of course very silly Beg to differ -- this is quite valuable as a new kind of paging device that you want to keep around instead of your higher end iPhone's battery constantly draining, and more importantly, for people who'd like to keep radiation at a distance. (Yeah, no, I'm not saying you should keep away from radiation, just that some people do prefer to and it's therefore a market segment.)

Doesn’t the watch also emit radiation?

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by bobthepanda »

smelendez wrote: post #182
kylebenzle wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a ver common phrase. I think its been lost to history but right before "TikTok" the phrase "tic tock" was getting popular as a way to say, "the second-by-second run down", e.g. give me the tic tock.

This was common in journalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-tock_(journalism) But I haven’t heard it in a while.

I feel like the most popular pre-app wide popular usage would’ve been the Ke$ha song.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

ykl wrote: post #39

I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…

I don't think this is silly in the slightest. There are lots of folks like me who deliberately want to break our phone addictions, which is why things like www.thelightphone.com exist.

My problem with the Light Phone (owner of version II) is that it's too limited. I don't want to be distracted by notifications or social media or doom scrolling on the browser, but I do need things that are essentially task-oriented tools: Uber/Lyft, Weather apps, Maps, Authenticator Code apps (and, now, using my phone as a passkey), etc.

I'm not an iOS user, but this makes be almost wish I were, because it's exactly what I'd want. It's too small to make me want to scroll YouTube randomly, but has all the tools that I don't want to forego. I think this is a fantastic product if it works as advertised.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by askvictor »

lokimedes wrote: post #59

I bought an Apple Watch to get away from the “screen” but of all evils, Apple don’t let their watches pair to my car, not even for hands free coms. If only they would allow for regular stereo bluetooth and handsfree I would ditch my iPhone. Perhaps that is what they fear?

I'd jump at this (or even just a straight Apple watch) to replace my phone if it didn't require an iPhone in order to use it (I currently use Android; seems a bit silly to buy an iPhone purely to enable a watch). Hoping they consider this use case eventually, and it's worth remembering that early ipods required a mac to use, and early iphones required a computer to set them up.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by drdaeman »

mikestew wrote: post #143
gnicholas wrote: post #58

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I have never understood why AWs consume so much battery at rest. I have a Garmin that lasts for several days, and I would be happy to have an AW what doesn't do all the stuff the AW does, but which is made by Apple. It could be a dumbed-down version that just vibrates and displays messages that I receive. I basically want a smartwatch so I can avoid phantom vibrations, and so I can quickly see what messages have come…

Is this an issue with WatchOS, the chipset being used, or the size of battery they have chosen? It is the screen (and cell radio, as I’ll note below). Note that when Garmin started putting OLED screens in their watches, the battery life dropped dramatically compared to a watch with similar innards, but a MIP display. However, Garmin will still beat an Apple Watch for battery life even with an OLED display, because as…

> he AW is doing a lot more in the background

For Apple-blessed stuff only. They tightened third-party widget update budget so badly third-party widgets that should provide up-to-date information are essentially unusable. E.g. large Weathergraph widget still works because it shows a day-long forecast, so being an hour old is rarely noticeable, but Fantastical (can keep showing outdated event for a while and miss the actual schedule) or Battery Grapher (can be up to 30 percent points off from the actual battery status) are absolutely unusable.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by [deleted] »

MrJagil wrote: post #125

I really like this product, but I have been on this journey, and will repost a comment i made to a recent thread about replacing your phone with an apple watch. — on: One year of using an Apple Watch Ultra as a phone ... I have done this as well, but with series 4. Some notes: - Apple Watch receives calls forwarded from your phone which creates a bunch of weird problems: 1) Imagine you’re at a bar and get a phone cal…

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