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TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

#191

If only the Apple Watch worked without an iPhone, I would buy this today.

You’re in luck because it does and that’s exactly how my daughter uses it at school.

How? I mean without owning an iPhone at all, not without yours nearby. I'm aware they have 4G. I mean for Android/dumbphone users.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

#193
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…

The offline storage is a nice touch

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

#194
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 to…

They recently announced a v3 of the light phone that might actually be useful - I also have a light phone II sitting in a drawer somewhere.

It ditches e-ink in favor of an OLED + matte glass that looks amazing. Having 60hz refresh rate means we can get nice responsive apps while keeping the minimalist UI. Hopefully they will make it easier to develop and run custom apps on this one.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

#196
post #166

This 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.

strong disagree. as i scrolled, the animation blinked as it loaded the image sequence and felt very staccato and not smooth at all. at least what apple does works

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

#199

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…

I've tried this several times too and still do phone less days quite often thanks to the watch, but my big obstacle has been the lack of Uber/Lyft which I use instead of having a car. They used to have those apps on the watch but unfortunately they don't.

If I could use Uber/Lyft on the watch I would mostly leave my phone on the charger.

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